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

[Arine]

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 14:32:29 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 09:30:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> Rust does not follow C syntax at all, so nobody will 
>> reasonably expect it to have C semantics. D does follow it, 
>> it's a feature, so people will have expectations.
>
> I'm not sure where exactly you draw the line, but I would say 
> that C# follows C's syntax about as much as D does. Yet it 
> doesn't import some of the broken C semantics like implicit 
> narrowing conversions (luckily, neither does D) and allowing 
> mixed sign comparisons (the oldest open D issue :( [0]).
>
> My point is that if D didn't follow the usual arithmetic 
> conversions, much fewer newcomers would even notice compared to 
> extremely large backlash that we may get if go with the string 
> interpolation -> raw tuple approach.
>
> [0]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259

Funnily enough the only contribution by Walter in that 14 year 
old bug is him trying to close it without there having been a 
solution implemented.

The spec is also still wrong, after 14 years.

https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#integer_comparisons