Literals starting with 0 will not work with UFCS
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Tue Jul 3 17:42:40 PDT 2012
On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 17:34:21 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 02:20:26 ixid wrote:
> > 0.writeln();
>
> This works.
>
> > 01.writeln();
>
> This doesn't.
>
> > etc...
> >
> > Throw up a series of errors while any other number as the leading
> > digit seems to work fine. Why is this?
>
> It's probably an artifact of getting rid of octal literals and is clearly a
> bug - though you probably shouldn't be starting literals with 0 due to
> possible confusion with octal literals anyway (00 - 07 are permitted because
> they're the same in both octal and decimal, but any other number literal
> starting with 0 is illegal).
>
> The error you get for something like
>
> auto n = 08;
>
> is a bit off too
>
> q.d(5): Error: semicolon expected following auto declaration, not '8'
Now reported:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8345
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8346
- Jonathan M Davis
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