Interpolated strings

[Jonas Drewsen via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 16 April 2017 at 00:25:19 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 23:58:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 23:11:42 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
>> wrote:
>>> How about... it removes an import or two?
>>
>> It doesn't actually remove the dependency, it is just syntax 
>> sugar over it (there is precedent for this in the language, 
>> the pow operator calls a Phobos function, but it means you 
>> don't actually gain decoupling of modules).
>
> As presented, it doesn't. But it can be implemented in a way 
> that it does. The compiler is capable of conversions without 
> ever needing std.conv, and if custom .toString() is required, 
> it will already be available anyway.

I guess the phobos dependency could be removed with some extra 
work
which I'll happily do. But the main worry I hear from people is 
the added
language complexity which isn't going away.