"monarch_dodra" <monarchdo...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:srtxvzubdafcjzwwn...@forum.dlang.org... > That said, I did not know of this "0o" prefix. It sounds like a good idea, > and I see no reason not to add it, other than it is hard work for the > compiler devs of course, who already have a lot of work. :)
It's a trivial amount of work to add '0o' octal literals to the language, but it was decided that octals are not used often enough to justify a language feature.