Interpolated strings

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 19 09:19:09 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 09:49:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-04-19 08:51, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>
>> If you want AST-macros in D you should also argue for 
>> redefining the
>> core language, and turn everything that is unnecessary and 
>> that can be
>> done as lowering into macros (e.g. "for each").
>
> If D had AST macros from the beginning, then yes, "foreach" 
> could have been implemented as a macro.

Yup. And actually also "while" and "for". More minimal languages 
just have: block, conditional and jump-to-start-of-block.





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