bit fields

[Imperatorn]

On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 16:14:15 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 15:52:34 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 08:22:20 UTC, Dmitry Ponyatov 
>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Is any chance that a few years later D will adopt packed 
>>> union/structured with bit fields, slicing and formatting 
>>> (Erlang-like maybe) ?
>>>
>>> I see D can be intensively used in embedded and telecom 
>>> application, where bit ops is definetely required.
>>
>> Same
>
> Do you have issues with the earlier alternative?
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_bitmanip.html#bitfields
>
>
> I use and like this one quite a bit.  The new bitfield variant 
> *might* be important for C interop?  I'm not in embedded 
> development at the moment but if I went back there I'd prefer 
> the original D bitfields for any new development.

Sorry, I meant to reply to "I see D can be intensively used in 
embedded and telecom application". That's what I wrote "Same" to