octal literals, was Re: Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Rainer Deyke]

On 3/25/2010 17:52, Walter Bright wrote:
> One thing is clear, though. 0177 is never going to be a decimal number
> in D, because it will silently and disastrously break code translated
> from C. The only choice is to support 0177 as octal or make it a syntax
> error. I'd rather support them.

I don't mind octal literals, but '0177' is a horrible syntax.  *Every*
*single* *time* that I used that syntax in C or C++, I really meant to
use a decimal.


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