The docs say:
http://dlang.org/lex.html
Hex strings allow string literals to be created using hex data.
The hex data need not form valid UTF characters.<
But this code:
void main() {
immutable ubyte[4] data = x"F9 04 C1 E2";
}
Gives me:
temp.d(2): Error: Outside Unicode code space
Are the docs correct?
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foobar:
Seems to me this is in the same ballpark as the built-in
complex numbers. Sure it's nice to be able to write "4+5i"
instead of "complex(4,5)" but how frequently do you actually
ever need the _literals_ even in complex computational heavy
code?
Compared to "oct!5151151511", one problem with code like this is
that binary blobs are sometimes large, so supporting a x"" syntax
is better:
immutable ubyte[4] data = hex!"F9 04 C1 E2";
Bye,
bearophile
