bearophile wrote:
Regarding octals (and multi-precision integer literals, and unit system
suffixes), it seems C++0x has user-defined literals :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++0x#User-defined_literals (I am not asking to
solve the D octal problem with them.)
The C++0x syntax for them to me appears to be a workaround for the bug that C++
templates cannot accept string literal arguments. As Andrei mentioned, the D
version:
Suffix!"string"
more than adequately replaces it, and has the advantage of not requiring the
user to learn a new syntax.
Even better, D's user defined literals can be executed and resolved at compile
time, while C++0x's are runtime only creations.
