Emulation macros and pattern matching on D

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 19:08:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> It's just so I didn't have to escape the quotes :D
>
> Otherwise it looks like this:
>
> return "writefln(\"mode " ~ mode ~ ": %s\", " ~ value ~ ");"

But such an option is possible to do work? : D

return `writefln(q"["mode]" ` ~ mode ~ `q"[: %s"]", ` ~ value ~ 
`);`;

> I think we can probably do a compile-time substitution 
> processor like rust (and other languages, including php and 
> ruby) which just uses the variable name inside a string with 
> some escape around it. `~var~` is not very succinct, I like 
> $var better.

It would be very good, because many have long been trying to 
implement this functionality handmade :)

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/shfmt