Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 19:00:01 UTC 2022
On 9/10/22 1:43 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/10/2022 9:18 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> Binary literals are e.g., a GNU C extension and they are in C++14, so
>> clearly people see an use for them.
>
> I implemented them back in the 80s as an extension, and nobody commented
> on them. I never found a use. As for seeing a use, seeing a use for them
> and actually using them are different things.
I just used them a couple months ago:
https://github.com/schveiguy/poker/blob/master/source/poker/hand.d#L261
This was so much easier to comprehend than the equivalent hex.
-Steve
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