Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Mon Sep 12 18:58:00 UTC 2022


On 13/09/2022 6:47 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 12 September 2022 at 18:19:19 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> They require very little processing and only in the compiler.
> 
> Escapes are processed by the compiler too. In fact, only combining and 
> control characters need to be escaped, all others can appear literally 
> for best compression and minimal processing except for transcoding from 
> utf-8 to utf-32.

Which is great for textual data. Not useful if you have binary data of 
any fixed sized type.


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