On Saturday, 20 October 2012 at 10:51:25 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij
wrote:
18.10.2012 12:58, foobar пишет:
IMO, this is a redundant feature that complicates the language
for no
benefit and should be deprecated.
strings already have an escape sequence for specifying
code-points "\u"
and for ubyte arrays you can simply use:
immutable(ubyte)[] data2 = [0xA1 0xB2 0xC3 0xD4];
So basically this feature gains us nothing.
Maybe. Just an example of a real world code:
Arrays:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/fc45de1d089a1025df60ee2eea66ba27ee0bd99c/src/core/sys/windows/dll.d#L110
vs
Hex strings:
https://github.com/denis-sh/hooking/blob/69105a24d77fcb6eca701282a16dd5ec7311c077/tlsfixer/ntdll.d#L130
By the way, current code isn't affected by the topic issue.
I personally find the former more readable but I guess there
would always be someone to disagree. As the say, YMMV.
