Yes, sometimes saving one character is a big deal. It also allows editors to color them as numbers. But this is a minor point. For something as marginal as hex float literals, custom string literals are fine.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Jason Merrill <jwmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 5, 2015 12:13:51 PM UTC-8, Jeff Bezanson wrote: >> >> > We might be able to find a more scalable syntax for different types of >> numbers. For example the syntax x@000 is available; `@ then digit` is >> always a syntax error currently. > > > Compared to a custom string literal (e.g. hex"1a3b7"), is the advantage that > you don't have to use a closing quote?
