Is the world coming to an end?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

Walter Bright wrote:
> And yes, you can make a reasonable case that 0b should be ditched
> for the same reason.

I know people already think of the isIntegral versions of octal
as a hack, but I see that as one reason why binary wouldn't work
as well as a template:

binary!1111_1111_0000_0000

Overflow city! Such long numbers aren't terribly common in octal,
but they /are/ in binary.

Of course, you can just use the string version, so it isn't a
big deal, but nevertheless, it is a difference.


btw, it might be worth considering a change to overflow. Suppose
there was a way to get arbitrary size ints passed to a template.
Then, the library could do its own overflow checks, or not, enabling
things like bigint literals in this same fashion.

Though, I don't think it's a big benefit. It'd be really weird
to use (a new compile time only datatype?)

And if you actually need that, the string version works just fine.

So all in all I don't think it's worth it.