https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5909

--- Comment #4 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc ---
If implicit conversions are not appreciated, then an alternative solution is to consider hex strings as ubyte array literals:

pragma(msg, typeof(x"1a b2"));
==>
immutable(ubyte)[]

This avoids implicit conversions. In 99% of the cases you don't want that literal to produce a string, so this is useful.

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bearophile_hugs@eml.cc changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Allow implicit conversion   |Allow implicit conversion
                   |of hex strings to           |of hex strings to
                   |immutable(ubyte)[] and      |immutable(ubyte)[] and
                   |immutable(ubyte[N])         |immutable(ubyte[N]) or turn
                   |                            |them into ubyte array
                   |                            |literals

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Marc Schütz <schuetzm@gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |schuetzm@gmx.net

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Shachar Shemesh <shachar@shemesh.biz> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |shachar@shemesh.biz

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Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |schveiguy@yahoo.com
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #5 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> ---
hex strings are deprecated.

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