The docs say: http://dlang.org/lex.html
Hex strings allow string literals to be created using hex data. The hex data need not form valid UTF characters.<
But this code: void main() { immutable ubyte[4] data = x"F9 04 C1 E2"; } Gives me: temp.d(2): Error: Outside Unicode code space Are the docs correct? -------------------------- foobar:
Seems to me this is in the same ballpark as the built-in complex numbers. Sure it's nice to be able to write "4+5i" instead of "complex(4,5)" but how frequently do you actually ever need the _literals_ even in complex computational heavy code?
Compared to "oct!5151151511", one problem with code like this is that binary blobs are sometimes large, so supporting a x"" syntax is better:
immutable ubyte[4] data = hex!"F9 04 C1 E2"; Bye, bearophile