Programming Language for Games, part 3

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/1/14 6:25 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> D has writefln which does not have printf's issues. There's no reason
>> to add a feature for printf.
>
> The feature we are talking about is not just for D writeln, as I've
> tried to explain several times.

Well maybe then it's time to reassess whether the point was valid and 
interesting.

> And D writeln is not verified at compile-time, this is silly for a
> language that tries to be reliable.

Wasn't there a pull request that allowed `writef!"%s %s"(1, 2)` in 
addition to what we have now? Should be easy to integrate.

> (Rust printing function is actually
> a macro and it verifies the formatting string at compile-time when
> possible. That's the only good enough option for me for a modern
> statically compiled language).

Is that a best-effort kind of approach? If so, that would be pretty bad...



Andrei