On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 01:57:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 00:32:40 UTC, Cecil Ward
So can the result of declaring certain things with enum ever
have an _address_ then? (According to legit D code that is,
never mind the underlying implementation detai
On Friday, 18 September 2020 at 02:49:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 22:25:47 UTC, claptrap wrote:
If enum means manifiest constant, or compile time constant,
then it makes more sense, as you allude to in a later post.
But 'enum' is a terrible name for that and I
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 22:25:47 UTC, claptrap wrote:
If enum means manifiest constant, or compile time constant,
then it makes more sense, as you allude to in a later post. But
'enum' is a terrible name for that and I dont think my brain
will ever stop finding it incongruous.
And
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 10:53:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[snip]
I can attest that in the 17 years I've been hanging around
here, the fact that enum is used to indicate a manifest
constant has not been a serious source of WTF posts. So I think
"pretty much everyone coming to D" have
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 10:56:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 09:44:20 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Seriously how it's implemented is irrelevant.
And to be clear, my point wasn't about how it's implemented. My
point was that:
enum { foo = 10; }
and
enum foo
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:06:56PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 9/17/20 9:13 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
>
> > To be clear: I don't mind 'enum' being used this way, but if I were
> > to do things over again, I would have used 'alias'.
>
> fun fact: for a (very) bri
On 9/17/20 9:13 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
To be clear: I don't mind 'enum' being used this way, but if I were to
do things over again, I would have used 'alias'.
fun fact: for a (very) brief time, D had a `manifest` keyword that did
exactly what enum does in this instance (not even sure it made
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:25:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Well, I was already using anonymous enums for compile-time
And, I should add, I have *never* seen C enums as an enumerated
list of values. I've always seen them as an alternative for
#defined constants because they're anonymo
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:13:46 UTC, Simen Kjærås
wrote:
To quote Bill Baxter from way back when
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/fjdc4c$2gft$1...@digitalmars.com):
> Why does:
> final int x = 3;
> make any more intuitive sense than:
> enum int x = 3;
> ?
There are these thi
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 10:56:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 09:44:20 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Seriously how it's implemented is irrelevant.
And to be clear, my point wasn't about how it's implemented. My
point was that:
enum { foo = 10; }
and
enum foo
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 10:56:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Are effectively the same thing, whether it's implemented that
way or not. So why on earth would a new keyword be necessary?
C++ made enums stricter by "enum class".
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 09:44:20 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Seriously how it's implemented is irrelevant.
And to be clear, my point wasn't about how it's implemented. My
point was that:
enum { foo = 10; }
and
enum foo = 10;
Are effectively the same thing, whether it's implemented tha
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 09:44:20 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Names are important, principle of least astonishment and all
that, pretty much everyone coming to D is going be WTF in
learning about that. And if you keep overloading existing
keywords with more and more meanings the code gets
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 01:57:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 00:32:40 UTC, Cecil Ward
enum foo is essentially a shortcut for enum { foo }. It’s
neither bent out of shape nor twisted. Consider that C++ added
the new keyword constexpr for the same thing.
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 00:32:40 UTC, Cecil Ward
So can the result of declaring certain things with enum ever
have an _address_ then? (According to legit D code that is,
never mind the underlying implementation details, which may not
be observable)
No. Think of it as a named liter
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 17:19:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 17:12:47 UTC, Cecil Ward
wrote:
then is there any downside to just using enum all the time?
For a non-string array, enum may give runtime allocations that
static immutable won't.
General
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 17:12:47 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
then is there any downside to just using enum all the time?
For a non-string array, enum may give runtime allocations that
static immutable won't.
Generally think of enum as being replaced with the literal
representation and
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