Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[KennyTM~]

On Mar 26, 10 11:32, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Supporting it means it will "silently and disastrously break code"
>> from anyone who tries to use a leading zero and *isn't* a C guru,
>
> You don't need to be a guru to know that. I was once a C newbie, and
> never had any trouble with it.
>
> It isn't just C, either, the same syntax is used in C++, Objective-C,
> Groovy, M4, Clojure, Go, Java, Scala, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, bash,
> Python (2.6 and earlier) and Perl.
>
> (It is not used in C#, Python 3.0, Fortran, or VisualBasic.)

And removed in ECMAScript 5 (next standard of Javascript).