Creating raw user-defined literals
In the previous recipe, we have looked at the way C++11 allows library implementers and developers to create user-defined literals and the user-defined literals available in the C++14 standard. However, user-defined literals have two forms, a cooked form, where the literal value is processed by the compiler before being supplied to the literal operator, and a raw form, in which the literal is not parsed by the compiler. The latter is only available for integral and floating-point types. In this recipe, we will look at creating raw user-defined literals.
Getting ready
Before continuing with this recipe, it is strongly recommended that you go through the previous one, Creating cooked user-defined literals, as general details about user-defined literals will not be reiterated here.
To exemplify the way raw user-defined literals can be created, we will define binary literals. These binary literals can be of 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit (unsigned) types. These types...
