Octal Literals

[Caligo]

This article by Walter might be of an interest to you:

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/user-defined-literals-in-the-d-programmi/229401068

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Dave X. <dxuhuang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a fresh college graduate who just got a job as a software developer, and
> I have been enthusiastically watching D for a while now (I program primarily
> in Java and C). I have some functional programming experience in Haskell and
> Scala as well.
>
> I like using octal numbers, and I've always been interested in D's octal
> literals. I'm glad to see that the traditional syntax of C's octal literals
> is being replaced by a more readable one. However, I can't help but think
> that the template solution ("octal!nnn") is a little too roundabout; is
> there a reason that that the "0o" prefix, which is already well established
> in languages like Haskell, OCaml, and Python, is not used?