More Intuitive Syntax for Manifest (enum) Constants

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 22 November 2025 at 02:30:12 UTC, Peter C wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 November 2025 at 01:48:43 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> ```d
>> enum N = 42;
>> ```
>
> I've never ever liked this misuse of enum in D to basically 
> reflect a lightweight constant.

This is actually mostly inherited from C.

In C, you can write code like this to define a compile-time 
constant:

     enum { N = 42 };

The only difference in D is that you are allowed to leave out the 
curly braces.