DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Format Assessment

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 2/25/20 10:13 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2020 at 13:39:40 UTC, Aliak wrote:
>> I should’ve been more specific 😬 I was wondering if the same could be 
>> achieved without a introducing a new aggregate type!
> 
> Well, compiler magic, possibly with more @attributes. But that gets far 
> messier than a simple struct, so we rejected it in the other thread.
> 
> I just added a section to my dip text explaining this though:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/186/files#diff-2d3c5bf5c5d1f001279a15e3449b2338R325 
> 
> 
> basically once we address all the inevitable questions such a new thing 
> would raise, we would essentially reinvent a struct with a new, awkward 
> syntax anyway.
> 
> So my view is a struct is a simple, understandable, and proven solution.

I think it's important that the compiler isn't involved with type 
construction, just lowering. It keeps things simple in the compiler.

-Steve