Which language futures make D overcompicated?

Andrea Fontana nospam at example.com
Fri Feb 9 15:27:18 UTC 2018


On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 15:09:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 14:59:38 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
> wrote:
>
>> const auto MAX_IN = 20;
>
> const MAX_IN = 20;
>
> The auto is superfluous and is only needed when there's no 
> storage class or type.
>
>>
>> Others say to use enums.  It turns out enums seems to be the 
>> best, as they don't create a symbol in the object file, but 
>> const auto does.
>
> If you need to take the address of a constant, use immutable or 
> const (doesn't really matter, but I prefer immutable). If you 
> don't need the address, use enum.

Why not static immutable?



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