Re: Octal Literals

2012-07-19 Thread Dave X.
How was the reception of the idea of binary literals as opposed to octal (I think it's an awesome feature, I think D, OCaml and Java 7 are the only ones that have it)? How long did it take to decide to implement it?

Re: Octal Literals

2012-07-18 Thread Dave X.
On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 22:35:48 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:53:47 +0200 "Dave X." wrote: I'm a fresh college graduate who just got a job as a software developer, and I have been enthusiastically watching D for a while now (I program primarily in

Octal Literals

2012-07-17 Thread Dave X.
I'm a fresh college graduate who just got a job as a software developer, and I have been enthusiastically watching D for a while now (I program primarily in Java and C). I have some functional programming experience in Haskell and Scala as well. I like using octal numbers, and I've always been