Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Justin Johansson]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 03/26/2010 06:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
> 
> Andrei

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Justin