Just because it's a slow Thursday on this forum

Suliman via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 10 06:06:02 PST 2016


On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 18:02:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 10:34 AM, ixid wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 12:46:34 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>>> I'm not a fan of non-trivial string mixins except in 
>>> extenuating
>>> circumstances.
>>
>> This is something Steven Schveighoffer commented on in these 
>> discussions
>> as well. As this is a fundamental D feature and it's currently 
>> rather
>> clunky and hard to use it would suggest this needs 
>> improvement. What
>> should be done with it if anything and with what methods?
>
> An alternate solution is liable to be too clever for its own 
> good. Everybody and their cat understands string concatenation. 
> What we need here is better tactical tools, e.g. a simple 
> string template/interpolation engine. -- Andrei

Sorry, but where dump! function can be helpful? What's wrong with 
writeln?


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