Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

Daniel N no at public.email
Wed Sep 14 20:02:17 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 19:56:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 19:34:00 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 9/12/2022 7:48 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>>> I don't recall anyone mentioning the removal of 
>>> complex/imaginary numbers, but the issues are the same.
>>
>> I was surprised at the pretty much non-existent pushback on 
>> removing them, even though it did carry with it the loss of 
>> the convenient syntax for them.
>
> I had some code that broke. It took maybe 15 minutes or a half 
> an hour to fix. I don't recall there being a preview switch for 
> that, but if not it might have been good to have one.
>
> I agree it was a convenient syntax, but most people probably 
> agreed that it wasn't pulling its weight.

... and it's worse if you remove common C features as then D 
nolonger is a BetterC.


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