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

[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>
>>> What would you sell it outright for? As in I would own it and have
>>> every right I would have if I was the original author.
>>>
>> As a non-exclusive license, probably $500.
> 
> Not a license, *own*. As in I *own* my hat. (ignoring the question of 
> would you still own your copy)

You can't have two people own the same copyright. One owns the 
copyright, and the other has a non-exclusive license to do whatever he 
wants with it. The other has effective ownership, but it's done as a 
license.

I'm not going to transfer the copyright, because then what am I going to 
put in the D compiler?


> But that's really beside the point. I could come up with several 
> somewhat reasonable reasons why "just use my code" isn't a good answer 
> to having gotcha in the lexical spec. If you really want to go that way, 
> then the lexical spec should officially BE the lexer source code.

I don't see where the "gotcha" is. It's not trivial, but it's 
specifiable, and the code implementing it is there and is correct.