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		Lucretia9 on Sept 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Ada Why didn't you, at least, put in Ada's numeric type system into D? You would've had a massive edge over C++ right there.

WalterBright on Sept 3, 2020 [–]

Probably because I didn't have the Ada spec anymore at the time.

But D did get _ embeddable in numeric literals, a very nice feature that D made popular and now it's normal in other languages.

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