Remove Enum from Float and Double
Brent Yorgey
byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Tue Jun 18 15:29:07 CEST 2013
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 07:47:22AM +0000, harry wrote:
> Tillmann Rendel <rendel at ...> writes:
>
> > In general, I would be against removing features just because they are
> > confusing for beginners. I don't think that's a good design principle
> > for a language that is primarily targeted at professional programmers
> > and computer scientists.
>
> They're confusing to beginners because they don't have consistent or
> sensible semantics. That should bother the professional programmers and
> computer scientists too!
Sure, but in fact it's the entire Enum class which doesn't have a
consistent or sensible semantics, not just some particular instances.
-Brent
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