removal of cruft from D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:he6sqe$1dqu$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Based on recent discussions on the NG a few features were 
>>> deprecated/removed from D, such as typedef and C style struct 
>>> initializers.
>>>
>>> IMO this cleanup and polish is important and all successful languages do 
>>> such cleanup for major releases (Python and Ruby come to mind). I'm glad 
>>> to see that D follows in those footsteps instead of accumulating craft 
>>> like C++ does.
>>>
>>>
>>> As part of this trend of cleaning up D before the release of D2, what 
>>> other features/craft should be removed/deprecated?
>>>
>>> I suggest reverse_foreach and c style function pointers
>>>
>>> please add your candidates for removal.
>>>
>> s/reverse_foreach/foreach_reverse/ ;)
>>
>> 1. Floating point literals without digits on *both* sides!!! "1.", ".1" --> 
>> Useless hindrance to future language expansion!
>>
>> 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. But until that finally 
>> happens, I don't want "010 == 8" preserved. And I don't think the ability to 
>> have an octal literal is important enough that lacking it for a while is a 
>> problem. And if porting-from-C really has to be an issue, then just make 
>> 0[0-9_]+ an error for a transitionary period (or forever - it'd at least be 
>> better than maintaining "010 == 8").
>>
>> 3. Also the comma operator, but that's already been recently discussed.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> <bikeshed>
> 
> hex literal prefix: 0x, not 0h
> =>
> octal literal prefix: 0c, not 0o
> 
> </bikeshed>

This I'm on board with. 0o is too much like a practical joke.

Andrei