Octal literals: who uses this?
Christopher Wright
dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 12:05:31 PDT 2009
Walter Bright wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Can we just remove this?
>
> The octal literals are done the way C does them. The reason they are
> there are for when translating C code to D code, obscure bugs are not
> introduced.
Okay, that makes sense. Removing it would be an option; \0 would have to
change to \x00. But it's not a big deal, just an annoying blemish.
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