Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Walter Bright]

KennyTM~ wrote:
> 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).

I didn't know that. But still, it's hard to be a programmer and not use a 
language that has such literals.