Number literals (Was: Re: Case Range Statement ..)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> No, it's exactly the opposite - putting on the table a rotten fish.<
> 
> If it's so smelly all people will avoid it quickly, so no harm done :-)
> 
> 
>> Big  integer literals can be accommodated as compile-time strings.
> 
> Do you mean like this?
> BigInt a = "12_345_678_900_345_678_900_000";
> 
> If that's what you say, then it's OK. There are more important things to think about.

Needs to be something like:

BigInt a = bigIntLiteral!"12_345_678_900_345_678_900_000";

Anyway, I think this feature is thoroughly useless. An adage says that 
the only numeric literals in a program should be 0, 1, and -1. How many 
big integer literals can you think of right now?

Andrei