Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Walter Bright]

On 9/9/2022 4:53 PM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> The nice thing is D lets you group the bits withunderscores.

Yes, that is a great feature I copied from Ada, where it had lain forgotten. Now 
everyone is adding it!

> So you might do like 0b11_111_101_001 which makes it a lot easier to manage and 
> you can group something like a flags register the same way it appears in the 
> documentation.

I haven't seen CPUs that were documented in octal since the PDP-11, even though 
it didn't quite work with 16 bits. It was a holdover from the 36 bit PDP-10. 8 
and 16 bit processors ever since used hex.

BTW, a 0 should go after the b, unless you've got an 11 bit flags register!

It's still easier to write as 0x7E9.