Jonathan M Davis:
I don't believe that either Walter or Andrei has ever suggested getting rid of them.
Andrei has suggested few times to implement a fixnum in Phobos instead of the built-in cent/ucent, and he was quite against a recent change that makes allows programmers to know if the current D compiler has implemented cent/ucent:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/672 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=785 Bye, bearophile
