Is the world coming to an end?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Dan Olson" <zans.is.for.cans at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> writes:
>
>> I agree that 0b could and should be deprecated.
>
> One vote here for not losing 0b.  It may sound silly, but some of D
> simple niceties like binary literals and underscores (e.g. 0b0111_0001)
> are what made me say to myself "D could be an awesome embedded
> language".  Someday I hope to use D instead of C in embedded work.  I
> have grown fond of 0b added to some C cross-compilers for manipulating
> bits in custom h/w registers.
>

That's exactly what drew me to D too. The prospect of something better than 
C for embedded (and other low-level) work.