Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation
Patrick Schluter
Patrick.Schluter at bbox.fr
Wed Sep 14 08:54:34 UTC 2022
On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 05:58:53 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 9/13/2022 7:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> But it doesn't disprove the fact that *sometimes*, hex digits
>> aren't as clear.
>
> Does sometimes justify a language feature, when there are other
> ways?
Yes, definitely. Why use `foreach` sometimes when you have `for`,
`while` and even `goto` to do it in another way?
>
> People often complain that D has too many features. What
> features would you say are not worth it?
Clumsy Phobos solutions to replace simple elegant consistent
language syntax.
For complex numbers, the language complexity it involves compared
to a library solution is probably justified. For the `0b`
literals definitively not.
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