Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Max Samukha]

On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 18:14:38 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

>
> and you'll be doing a couple hundred of those at least. 
> Wouldn't this be more appealing:
>
> "
>    .XXX.
>    X...X
>    XXXXX
>    X...X
>    X...X
> "

It probably would, but that's not our use case.

>
> ? Then write a trivial parser, and use CTFE to generate the 
> binary data for the table. Of course, such a parser could be 
> used over and over for other projects.

As I said, we could do it differently, but binary literals + 
comments are just optimal for our use case. There are other cases 
where we use them (in the definition of a binary protocol and in 
a few other places). We could but don't want to write a parser, 
translate into hex, etc. Replacing the literals with templates 
would be acceptable but annoying.