Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 20:00:49 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 19:39:19 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/13/2022 6:52 AM, Don Allen wrote:
>> So while I don't have a personal use for binary literals, 
>> clearly others have. But Walter sees an internal cost to the 
>> compiler.
> The internal cost to the compiler is pretty small as these 
> things go. It's more the cognitive cost of a larger language.

This focuses things on what I'm calling user-complexity. What 
many people are arguing here is that removing binary literals 
will not reduce the cognitive load meaningfully.


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