Replace core language HexStrings with library entity

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:16:58 +0000, ketmar wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:00:09 +0000, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> 
>> On 17/03/2015 03:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On a higher level: there's no subset of the language that's at the
>>> same time sufficiently complex and sufficiently obscure to make its
>>> removal a net positive.
>> 
>> q"" delimited strings. No one uses them (used once in all of Phobos).
>> They are obscure and add some complexity to lexing D.
> 
> hello. let me introduce myself: i'm mr. NoOne!

yet i must confess that it was once or twice, and mostly by accident. ;-)
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