Octal Literals

[Daniel Murphy]

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:srtxvzubdafcjzwwnkmz at forum.dlang.org...
> That said, I did not know of this "0o" prefix. It sounds like a good idea, 
> and I see no reason not to add it, other than it is hard work for the 
> compiler devs of course, who already have a lot of work. :)

It's a trivial amount of work to add '0o' octal literals to the language, 
but it was decided that octals are not used often enough to justify a 
language feature.