Replace core language HexStrings with library entity
Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 17 05:42:42 PDT 2015
"Nick Treleaven" wrote in message news:me950a$2boc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 17/03/2015 03:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > On a higher level: there's no subset of the language that's at the same
> > time sufficiently complex and sufficiently obscure to make its removal a
> > net positive.
>
> q"" delimited strings. No one uses them (used once in all of Phobos). They
> are obscure and add some complexity to lexing D.
They don't have a high complexity though, and that's the point. The amount
of code in the compiler to support them is trivial.
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