removal of cruft from D

[Justin Johansson]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Adam D. Ruppe
> <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> 2. Octal literals! I think it'd be great to have a new octal syntax, or even
>>> better, a general any-positive-inter-base syntax.
>> Both D and DMC accept 0b0000 as a binary literal. If 0x is hex, it seems
>> logical that octal should be 0o10.
>>
>> It looks silly, but it fits the pattern, provides the literal for those
>> who use it, and isn't valid right now.
> 
> Exactly what I was thinking. 0o08.
> Except I don't think it looks so silly.
> And even if it does look silly, who cares.  Octal literals *are* silly.  :-)
> 
> --bb

Agree on all points.  This is a sensible suggestion (IMHO).