removal of cruft from D

[Steven E. Harris]

Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> writes:

> Thanks, I also discovered that Ada supports it.

As does Common Lisp with the dynamic variable *read-base*¹, the
"sharpsign R" reader macro², and, less interestingly, the function
parse-integer³.


Footnotes: 
¹ http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/v_rd_bas.htm#STread-baseST
² http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhj.htm
³ http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_parse_.htm

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Steven E. Harris