On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 17:01:54 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > The octal library solution is brilliant. The genius who wrote > that code is clearly god-like and we should all fall to our > knees and worship his superior intellect. That pattern DOES > have uses. Octal predates GitHub, hexString is new: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3133