On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 02:39:50AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 01:55:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > No, because their usage by druntime is nearly nonexistent. > > Only because they're not supported! > > Code like `0xsomething // octal something else` is found a whopping > 200 times in druntime (granted btw all in the core.sys bindings).
I'm guessing most of those occurrences are in interfacing with Posix (or other OS) calls involving bitmasks, like umask(). > By contrast, the word "octal" only occurs 100 times through all of > Phobos, and the octal template is used only 15 times, excluding its > own unit tests. Ironically, octal literals are probably most used in OS API calls like umask(), so .octal really should be in druntime rather than Phobos! T -- What are you when you run out of Monet? Baroque.