More Intuitive Syntax for Manifest (enum) Constants

[Dejan Lekic]

On Tuesday, 25 November 2025 at 10:54:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> And honestly, if I were to create a new version of D with all 
> of the various changes that I think would ideally be changed if 
> we didn't care about backwards compatibility, I'd probably just 
> leave manifest constants the way that they are. It simply isn't 
> worth adding a keyword for this concept, and it has the benefit 
> that both enum values and manifest constants which are 
> designated via enum behave the same way. So, arguably, using a 
> different keyword would just fix one perceieved inconsistency 
> by adding a new name for what is practically speaking the same 
> thing but in a slightly different form.

I thought I would skip this discussion, but I could not resist to 
write my suggestion here. We discussed `final int E = 42`, 
`manifest E = 42`, and few other options on but I do not remember 
that we discussed this:

```d
named E = 42;
named APP_VERSION = "1.0.0";
```

This comes from the fact that manifest constants are "named", 
"literal", "symbolic" constants. A good alternative in my opinion 
would be `symbol E = 42;`