On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 04:21:09PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 3/15/15 12:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > >HexStrings: > > > > http://dlang.org/lex.html#HexString > > > >They're rarely used, but very useful when needed. But, as the octal > >literals have shown, they can be easily replaced with a library > >template: > > > > x"00 FBCD 32FD 0A" > > > >becomes: > > > > hex!"00 FBCD 32FD 0A" > > > >It'll simplify the core language slightly. > > > >Thoughts? Anyone want to write the hex template? Any other ideas on > >things that can removed from the core language and replaced with > >library entities? > > hexString and hexBytes. -- Andrei
Even better! T -- Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. -- Herman Hesse