Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

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Mon Sep 12 08:13:36 UTC 2022


On Friday, 9 September 2022 at 23:04:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Also UTF parsing involves reflection on leading set bits to 
determine the number of code units.
Binary is more comfortable for unix permissions for me, whenever 
I see them in octal form I have to convert them to binary to make 
sense of them and then back from binary to octal to write them.


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