Octal literals: who uses this?

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 12:05:31 PDT 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Can we just remove this?
> 
> The octal literals are done the way C does them. The reason they are 
> there are for when translating C code to D code, obscure bugs are not 
> introduced.

Okay, that makes sense. Removing it would be an option; \0 would have to 
change to \x00. But it's not a big deal, just an annoying blemish.



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