Byte Array Literal

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

ketmar:

> additionally to all bearophile said, there is another 
> interesting thing in D: special string literals for hex data.
>
>   immutable ubyte[] n = cast(typeof(n))x"deadf00d";
>
> or even:
>
>   immutable ubyte[] n = cast(typeof(n))x"de ad f 0 0 d";
>
> spaces doesn't matter, only digits do.

The problem is that cast. No one wants a string, most people want 
a ubyte[].

See:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3850
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5909
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10454

Bye,
bearophile