Interpolated strings

Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 15 13:20:49 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 20:12:41 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 20:04:13 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote:

> This has been proposed before, and I still don't see the added 
> value compared to:
>
>     auto a=7;
>     writeln(a, " times 3 is ", a*3);
>
> besides adding compiler complexity, language complexity and 
> parsing complexity which leaves room for more bugs to be 
> invented. I'm a bit more harsh than I could be, but if this 
> simple question has no clear answer I don't see why it sould 
> make it into the language.

Try a different context:

auto a = 7;

import std.format;
auto str = format("%s times 3 is %s", a, a*3);

//or

import std.conv;
auto str = text(a, " times 3 is ", a*3);

//or

auto str = $"{a} times 3 is {a*3}";


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