Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 01:43:44PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9/13/2022 1:06 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > If I wanted to specify an "every third bit set" mask, in hex it would be
> > `0x924924924...`. But in binary it is `0b100100100100...`. The second
> > version is immediately clear what it is, whereas the first is not.
> 
> Is it? How do you know it didn't overflow the int and create a long?
> How do you know you filled up the int?
[...]

Simple, use `_`:

	0b1001_0010_0100

This makes it immediately obvious exactly how many bits the literal
occupies.


T

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