stri: string format/interpolation library for D. how to embed variables into string like shell scripts

Seb seb at wilzba.ch
Sun Jul 29 19:18:30 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 29 July 2018 at 14:55:46 UTC, Shigeki Karita wrote:
> This library is very similar to Scala or shell scripts.
>
> - https://github.com/ShigekiKarita/stri/tree/master
> - 
> https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolation.html
>
>
> ## example
>
> import stri : s;
>
> // runtime/compile-time variables
> auto a = 1;
> enum _a0 = "D-lang";
> struct A {
>     static a = 0.123;
> }
>
> // you can use the default %s and custom ones e.g., %.3f
> mixin s!"${a} is one. ${_a0} is nice. ${A.a%.3f}" i;
> assert(i.str == "1 is one. D-lang is nice. 0.123");

Seems fairly similar to `interp` in scriptlike: 
https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike
BTW it wouldn't be so hard to add string interpolation to the 
language and compiler, there have been two PRs now. This was the 
latest:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7988

I think someone just needs to take a bit of time and write a DIP, 
so that A&W can't say no ;-)


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