Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

IGotD- nise at nise.com
Fri Sep 9 17:03:49 UTC 2022


On Friday, 9 September 2022 at 16:55:18 UTC, Puneet Goel wrote:
> I recently saw a talk by Walter Bright in the recently 
> concluded DConf where Walter made a case for dropping compiler 
> support for Binary literals.
>
> I use Dlang for hardware. Binary literals are scattered 
> everywhere in my code. D is a systems programming language. And 
> thanks to industry-wide FPGA/CPU consolidation, programmable 
> hardware is projected to grow big in the coming years.
>
> Please reconsider binary literal deprecation.

Why would you want to drop binary literals which are useful for 
near HW programming? It's just a literal why would that be so 
hard to support?


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