Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A: Use octal!"177"
W: Ugh.
A (esprit d'escalier): If you don't like the universal notation you
invented, who will?
Good point. As I recall, we expended an enormous amount of effort working on
template syntax, and I certainly feel that
octal!"177"
is far better than, say:
octal<"177">.value
but when I compare it to
0177
that's just hard to beat. A customized syntax is always going to be better than
a generic one. The octal syntax is used in several widely popular languages, and
is convenient and looks attractive. It's used a lot in dealing with the unix
file system.
