Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Dennis]

On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 17:48:15 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> What's ironic about this discussion is the exact opposite 
> happened with D bitfields.

There's no irony, the two situations are not comparable.

With bitfields, the current situation is we have std.bitmanip in 
Phobos, which has its own simple layout scheme, doesn't break 
meta programming, but has ugly syntax.

The proposal was to make D additionally inherit C's bitfields, 
which has C's platform-dependent layout scheme, breaks meta 
programming, but has nice syntax.

With binary literals, the current situation is we have a 
perfectly fine implementation in the lexer, with the proposal to 
replace it with a Phobos template to do the exact same but with 
worse user experience.

What *is* ironic though, is that [you were 
against](https://forum.dlang.org/post/qs9cf2$kbt$1@digitalmars.com) deprecating `q"EOS text EOS"` strings, dismissing complexity concerns and siding with user experience. Now you're doing the reverse.