Octal Literals

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:06:21PM +0200, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:45:58 +0200, Dave X. <dxuhuang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Not that this really matters, but out of curiosity, how does this
> >template work?
> 
> It converts the passed number to a string, then works on a digit at a
> time. Basically:
> 
> foreach ( digit; number ) {
>    if ( digit >= '0' && digit <= '9' )
>       result = result * 8 + digit;
> }
[...]

And this is done at compile-time, so there is no runtime overhead (it
just becomes a constant like an actual literal).


T

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