On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad <pub...@kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:he6sqe$1dq...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> Based on recent discussions on the NG a few features were >>> deprecated/removed from D, such as typedef and C style struct initializers. >>> >>> IMO this cleanup and polish is important and all successful languages do >>> such cleanup for major releases (Python and Ruby come to mind). I'm glad to >>> see that D follows in those footsteps instead of accumulating craft like C++ >>> does. >>> >>> >>> As part of this trend of cleaning up D before the release of D2, what >>> other features/craft should be removed/deprecated? >>> >>> I suggest reverse_foreach and c style function pointers >>> >>> please add your candidates for removal. >>> >> >> s/reverse_foreach/foreach_reverse/ ;) >> >> 1. Floating point literals without digits on *both* sides!!! "1.", ".1" >> --> Useless hindrance to future language expansion! >> >> 2. Octal literals! I think it'd be great to have a new octal syntax, or >> even better, a general any-positive-inter-base syntax. But until that >> finally happens, I don't want "010 == 8" preserved. And I don't think the >> ability to have an octal literal is important enough that lacking it for a >> while is a problem. And if porting-from-C really has to be an issue, then >> just make 0[0-9_]+ an error for a transitionary period (or forever - it'd at >> least be better than maintaining "010 == 8"). > > It would definitely be a problem if octal literals disappeared from the > language, even if only for a short while. They are pretty much the only > sensible way to specify POSIX file permissions. > > import core.sys.posix.sys.stat; > ... > chmod("path/to/file", 0755);
Well you can always do.. chmod("path/to/file", octal(755)); --bb