🚀 go-pugleaf

Why, oh why, aren't we allowed to write binary numbers in C++? The 
standard could trivially be extended by allowing binary numbers to be 
written, prefixed with 0b, or perhaps 0y. This makes bit masks _much_ 
easier to read. And it wouldn't break any presently legal program.

Another related improvement would be to allow embedded underscores in 
numbers, for clarity. 1_000_000_000 is obviously a billion, while 
1000000000 is not so obviously a billion. Same for 0x8000_0000, or 
0y0001_1110_0000_0000. Again, it doesn't break anything.

Oh heck, I might as well throw this in. Why isn't there an escape for 
escape? That is, why can't \e be defined as \x1B, since it's such a 
common control character?

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Ciao,
Paul D. DeRocco
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