Jonathan M Davis:
And what is so onerous about having to do 1.0L instead of 1R?
It's not onerous, the purpose of "R" is not to save typing ".0".
(it would have to be either double or real, and
apparently it's real).
1.0L is always a real in D.
We _could_ add R, but I don't really see what it buys us.
Octal literals are deprecated in D because programmers sometimes
forget about them, or make mistakes adding a leading zero,
thinking it does nothing as in math, and defining a number
different from the desired one.
If you write "auto x = 1L;" thinking about defining a real, as
you define a float with "auto x = 1F;" you are introducing a
small bug.
Or maybe you initially have written:
auto r = 1.1L;
And later you want to change the number to 1.0 and you fix it
like this:
auto r = 1L;
Now you have a little bug.
The "R" is more symmetric with "f", it works as "f" for real.
This makes learning D a bit simpler.
Very often it's better to have literals as much specific as
possible, otherwise you get situations like the following one,
what's the problem here (Issue 4703)?
import std.stdio: writeln;
void main() {
int[] associative_array = [1:2, 3:4, 5:6];
writeln(associative_array);
}
Bye,
bearophile
