[OT] ISO C++ 17 changes

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 12:46 +0000, Xinok via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 at 02:43:26 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> > String interpolation would be nice too, it would really help 
> > with readability!
> 
> This really isn't in the spirit of D and is better left to 
> library functions which give the user far more power and 
> flexibility. Incorporating such a feature into the language 
> raises many questions and concerns:

Interestingly, or not, Python 3.6 introduces string interpolation even
though Python already has the format function. And pythonistas are
happy about this.

> * It becomes a language feature thereby further bloating the 
> language and runtime
> * What if you want it to be @nogc?
> * What if you want to combine it with allocators?
> * What if you want to store the result in a particular buffer?
> * What if you want the result to be lazily evaluated?
> * What if you want an input range of chars? ... that is lazily 
> evaluated?
> * What if you want to format the arguments in a specific way?
> 
> Given the ease in which such a feature can be implemented and 
> used as a library function, I don't see interpolated strings as 
> being a necessary feature in D.
-- 
Russel.
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