On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 19:38:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
It sounds so natural. I forgot; what was the argument against it?
0o was denied basically just because we felt it wasn't necessary to have in the language at all; that it was rare enough and the library *can* do it, so the library *should* do it.
And at the time, I totally agreed! And in some cases, I still do - I think D programmers ought to know the technique so they can use it for their own niches.
Just in the years since, we see `0x40; // octal 0100` instead of `octal!100` since the cost of the library import is higher than the cost of converting by hand to hex or binary, which are still built into the language.
