Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Walter Bright]

What's ironic about this discussion is the exact opposite happened with D bitfields.

After implementing it for C, I realized that we could add bitfields to D by 
simply turning the existing implementation on. The code was already there, it 
was already supported and debugged.

The other side preferred a template solution that didn't have quite the simple 
syntax that the C solution had, whereas I thought bitfields would be used enough 
to justify the simpler builtin syntax.

Another irony was that in turning it on for D, it exposed a serious bug that the 
extensive tests I wrote for the C side had missed.