Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

Max Samukha maxsamukha at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 17:52:37 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.

Same here. Please leave the binary literals alone. In general, "I 
haven't needed this feature for a long time/my friends don't use 
it" is a terrible indicator of what is/may be useful.


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