Is the world coming to an end?

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:16 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> I think a point the size of China is being missed here.
> 
> "octal" is not only an alternative notation, it is an example, a model 
> for defining other user-defined literals. Adding 0o or whatever would 
> solve the issue of defining an obscure literal, whereas octal opens the 
> door to a host of possibilities to define user-defined literals.

The same goes for 0b... 0x... so why aren't they being removed in favour
of library based solution?

Despite Walters claim that inconsistency is not a bad thing, evidence
indicates that from the psychology community that consistency and
affordance is a very good thing for usability.  

-- 
Russel.
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