removal of cruft from D

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Adam D. Ruppe
<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> 2. Octal literals! I think it'd be great to have a new octal syntax, or even
>> better, a general any-positive-inter-base syntax.
>
> Both D and DMC accept 0b0000 as a binary literal. If 0x is hex, it seems
> logical that octal should be 0o10.
>
> It looks silly, but it fits the pattern, provides the literal for those
> who use it, and isn't valid right now.

Exactly what I was thinking. 0o08.
Except I don't think it looks so silly.
And even if it does look silly, who cares.  Octal literals *are* silly.  :-)

--bb