Is the world coming to an end?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/3/2011 4:48 AM, spir wrote:
> When I introduced the topic of octal notation 0nnn beeing bad, I was 100% sure
> that (if a move was ever made) either octals would be thrown out of D all
> together for beeing nearly useless, or the syntax would be fixed -- the
> "obvious" "correct" solution if octals remain. While I new about octal!, this
> was so hackish and obviously wrong *for me*, that I did not even imagine one
> second it could become the "official" solution.
> I'm certainly not the only one.
> Questions of detail, sure, but we all know what the details hide ;-)

I can see that the syntax octal!677 can be a bit off-putting at first, simply 
because it is not what we're used to. But give it a chance.