The state of string interpolation

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 21:20:54 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

> IMO the one thing that will likely get this across the finish 
> line is to generalize it:
>
> 1) What is the fundamental missing language feature that is 
> preventing us from implementing interpolated strings in the 
> library?

AST macros :). That would give access to the caller's scope and 
it can replace the call expression with whatever the macro 
returns.

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

A whole lot of different use cases.

https://wiki.dlang.org/DIP50

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/Jacob Carlborg