The state of string interpolation

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 21:20:54 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> 1) What is the fundamental missing language feature that is 
> preventing us from implementing interpolated strings in the 
> library?

To access symbols from the caller's scope.

> 2) What other use cases besides string interpolation would be 
> enabled by adding such a feature?

Any thing from scala's implicit playbook.