Octal Literals

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 14:13:06 UTC, Dave X. wrote:
> How was the reception of the idea of binary literals as opposed 
> to octal (I think it's an awesome feature, I think D, OCaml and 
> Java 7 are the only ones that have it)? How long did it take to 
> decide to implement it?

If they were introduced today, I guess they might well be 
implemented as a template too, similar to octal.

David