A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 15 04:06:06 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 09:24:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/14/2015 10:28 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> Not one precisely, but I'm sure we don't need as many as we 
>> have. ", `, q", q{,
>> r", x". I've never used several of theses and I'm sure most 
>> people here would
>> say the same.
>
> The HexStrings http://dlang.org/lex.html#HexString can be 
> easily replaced with a user defined literal. That's probably a 
> good idea. The others, not so.

This I agree with. Their usefulness is also greatly diminished by 
them being strings, instead of byte (ubyte?) arrays. When would 
you actually want to write a string (= text) using hex notation?


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