Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Walter Bright]

On 9/9/2022 1:35 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> The octal literal template -- meh. It functions. I don't think it's a thing we 
> need to highlight. It runs a simple parser at CTFE which isn't nearly as cheap 
> as the octal parser in the compiler.

That's because it's poorly implemented and overly complex. The implementation I 
showed in my presentation at Dconf is much simpler.

If you're using a lot of octal literals such that this is an issue, one wonders, 
what for? The only use I know of is for Unix file permissions.


> The truly ironic thing is that the compiler is still correctly parsing octal 
> literals, so it can tell you how to write them with std.conv.octal ;)

To make transition easier. Simplifying the language has a lot of downstream 
simplifications.