Just because it's a slow Thursday on this forum

Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 10 06:22:14 PST 2016



Dne 10.2.2016 v 15:06 Suliman via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> 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?
It is something else. Same as php has echo and var_dump. writeln just 
output value of some variable, but dump will print names and values of 
variables, so you can see structure of your data.


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