removal of cruft from D
    Leandro Lucarella 
    llucax at gmail.com
       
    Sat Nov 21 10:37:24 PST 2009
    
    
  
KennyTM~, el 21 de noviembre a las 16:56 me escribiste:
> >in the long term, I'd like to see a more general syntax that allows to
> >write numbers in any base.
> >something like:
> >[base]n[number] - e.g. 16nA0FF, 2n0101, 18nGH129, etc.
> >also define syntax to write a list of digits:
> >1024n[1005, 452, 645, 16nFFF] // each digit can also be defined in
> >arbitrary base
> >
> 
> What's the point of using bases other than 2, 8, 10, 16, 36 and 64?
Are there any common uses for bases other than 2, 8, 10 and 16 that makes
language support reasonable (instead of library support)?
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