Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Mar 25 22:46:33 PDT 2010


Don wrote:
> I've done it with powers of 10:
> 001,
> 010,
> 100
> 
> and then wondered why my code was wrong. It's the only time in my life 
> I've ever used an octal literal.

I see that and it screams BINARY to me, not decimal!

I guess I'm not sure why it never was a problem for me. It's just "oh, that's 
octal, ok" and went on to more interesting things.



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