On 3/25/2010 17:52, Walter Bright wrote: > One thing is clear, though. 0177 is never going to be a decimal number > in D, because it will silently and disastrously break code translated > from C. The only choice is to support 0177 as octal or make it a syntax > error. I'd rather support them.
I don't mind octal literals, but '0177' is a horrible syntax. *Every* *single* *time* that I used that syntax in C or C++, I really meant to use a decimal. -- Rainer Deyke - [email protected]
