Literals - Was: Re: Remove complex and imaginary types?

[Aarti_pl]

Don Clugston pisze:
 > But a solution to the literal problem would be impressive.

Interesting... So it seems that its time for user defined literals? I 
saw another post in D.learn about big int literals. Also it would much 
nicer to initialize Date with human readable format....

Maybe something like this:

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// l denotes literal or even without l{}
Date date = l{2008-01-07};

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class Date {
	Date literal(string) {
		Date result;
		//... do the job on compile time:
		//parse and create proper class
		return result
	}
}

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... when class defines compile time constructor function it tries to 
apply it for user literal.

Just quick idea without deeper analysis...

What do you think?

BR
Marcin Kuszczak