Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation
Daniel N
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Tue Sep 13 20:03:52 UTC 2022
On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 19:56:22 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
>
> My point has been restated multiple times in this thread by
> several people: if the binary represents bit flags and is
> grouped with a dash in nibbles, it is easier to read than a
> hex. You count bits, not hex digits, and there is no need to
> count more than 4.
You are right.
Furthermore complexity is not reduced by removing literals,
consider if you use 5+ languages, and every language has it's own
include to enable literals, then you need to remember 5 different
includes. (std.conv really makes no sense what if you don't even
use phobos?)
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