Number literals (Was: Re: Case Range Statement ..)

[Leandro Lucarella]

Jarrett Billingsley, el  7 de julio a las 23:40 me escribiste:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Walter
> Bright<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> > Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> >>
> >> Totally agree.  They're cruft that just complicate lexical analysis.
> >
> > Not a significant issue, as the code to lex it is done, works, and is
> > readily available.
> 
> I'm not going to argue this anymore.

I will =)

That's not a good enough reason. Having *one* front-end
(lexer/parser/semantic analizer) is not good enough. D was supposed to
make this easy to encourage different implementations. If the D specs are
twisted and making a new lexer is... confusing, I think that's a failure.

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