Regarding hex strings

[foobar]

On Friday, 19 October 2012 at 00:14:18 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:11:13 +0200
> "foobar" <foo at bar.com> wrote:
>> 
>> How often large binary blobs are literally spelled in the 
>> source code (as opposed to just being read from a file)?
>
>
> Frequency isn't the issue. The issues are "*Is* it ever 
> needed?" and
> "When it is needed, is it useful enough?" The answer to both is 
> most
> certainly "yes". (Remember, D is supposed to usable as a systems
> language, it's not merely a high-level-app-only language.)

Any real-world use cases to support this claim? Does C++ have 
such a feature?
My limited experience with kernels is that this feature is not 
needed. The solution we used for this was to define an extern 
symbol and load it with a linker script (the binary data was of 
course stored in separate files).

>
> Keep in mind, the question "Does it pull it's own weight?" is 
> for
> adding new features, not for going around gutting the language
> just because we can.

Ok, I grant you that but remember that the whole thread started 
because the feature _doesn't_ work so lets rephrase - is it worth 
the effort to fix this feature?

>
>> In any case, I'm not opposed to such a utility library, in 
>> fact I think it's a rather good idea and we already have a 
>> precedent with "oct!"
>> I just don't think this belongs as a built-in feature in the 
>> language.
>
> I think monarch_dodra's test proves that it definitely needs to 
> be
> built-in.

It proves that DMD has bugs that should be fixed, nothing more.