Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/25/2010 05:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> Regarding octals (and multi-precision integer literals, and unit system
>> suffixes), it seems C++0x has user-defined literals :-)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++0x#User-defined_literals (I am not
>> asking to
>> solve the D octal problem with them.)
>
>
> The C++0x syntax for them to me appears to be a workaround for the bug
> that C++ templates cannot accept string literal arguments. As Andrei
> mentioned, the D version:
>
> Suffix!"string"
>
> more than adequately replaces it, and has the advantage of not requiring
> the user to learn a new syntax.
>
> Even better, D's user defined literals can be executed and resolved at
> compile time, while C++0x's are runtime only creations.

Then you'll be happy to start using octal as soon as I commit it.

Andrei