Octal Literals

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 21:53:50 UTC, Dave X. wrote:
> I'm a fresh college graduate who just got a job as a software 
> developer, and I have been enthusiastically watching D for a 
> while now (I program primarily in Java and C). I have some 
> functional programming experience in Haskell and Scala as well.
>
> I like using octal numbers, and I've always been interested in 
> D's octal literals. I'm glad to see that the traditional syntax 
> of C's octal literals is being replaced by a more readable one. 
> However, I can't help but think that the template solution 
> ("octal!nnn") is a little too roundabout; is there a reason 
> that that the "0o" prefix, which is already well established in 
> languages like Haskell, OCaml, and Python, is not used?

Coming from C++, the only time I've EVER seen octals used is "by 
accident" when developers try to 0-align his variables. Good 
riddance to the "0" prefix. Seriously >:(

That said, I did not know of this "0o" prefix. It sounds like a 
good idea, and I see no reason not to add it, other than it is 
hard work for the compiler devs of course, who already have a lot 
of work. :)