Question about iteger literals

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Uranuz:

> Why there are so complicated rules in the *new* language.
> It's hard to understand the logic.

Despite D being only 14 years old, one of its rules is to 
(usually) give the same results if you write code that is valid 
in C. This means it has to follow many rules of C language. If 
you try your code in C you will see some similar results. This 
rule of D is quite handy.

Other reasons for the current design of D is that sometimes 
practicality beats design purity, because D is an engineering 
product.

And I guess another reason is that Walter is not a mathematician 
nor a computer science theorist, so he has not seen some more 
principled designs, or he has not appreciated them because of 
their more formal nature.

Bye,
bearophile