removal of cruft from D

[Justin Johansson]

Justin Johansson wrote:
> Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> It would definitely be a problem if octal literals disappeared from 
>> the language, even if only for a short while. They are pretty much the 
>> only sensible way to specify POSIX file permissions.
>>
>>   import core.sys.posix.sys.stat;
>>   ...
>>   chmod("path/to/file", 0755);
>>
>> -Lars
> 
> Good point.  Few if any other of us though of that! :-)

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