Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Max Samukha]

On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 05:58:53 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

> People often complain that D has too many features. What 
> features would you say are not worth it?

Hex/binary/octal literals are perceived as a single feature. 
Removing some of them would actually complicate the language by 
introducing an inconsistency into that feature (see Timon's post).

What really simplifies a language is removal of inconsistencies 
and special cases, and also improvement of interactions between 
features. For example, we are now struggling with the 
impossibility to perfectly forward a variadic function call:

```
void bar(short a)
{
}

void foo(alias target, A...)(auto ref A args)
{
     target(forward!args);
}

void main()
{
     bar(1); // ok
     foo!bar(1); // error because args[0] is inferred as int
}
```

We now have to force superfluous casts on the API user, or resort 
to all kinds of metaprogramming hackery, or go back to Java-style 
monkey-coding.