Is the world coming to an end?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/3/11 1:40 PM, spir wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 06:14 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Adding octal!777 to std.conv is consistent with the notion that there
>> still are
>> a few uses for octal constants that are worth a presence in the standard
>> library. It is also consistent with the desire to foster other
>> user-defined
>> literals defined from the same mold.
>
> What about a general baseNumber template instead?
> ....which would also be trivially "alias-able":
> alias baseNumber!3 base3;

When was last time you've been in a place in life when you could have 
used a base 3 literal?

Andrei