The state of string interpolation

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 17:12:46 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer 
wrote:
> The biggest benefit I think of doing it this way is 
> standardisation. Because if it were to be done with a library 
> implementation, there will probably be a few libraries which 
> will implement it with various syntax and in various stages of 
> working. Furtheron, people would have to learn a library 
> instead of a language feature, which on itsself isn't such big 
> of a deal except that there are probably multiple libraries 
> doing thesame thing, and libraries are harder to find 
> documentation for. Its always annoying in a professional 
> project to have to add external dependencies for small 
> features. It becomes a liability and makes D less attractive.

You can get the same benefit by putting the library version in 
the standard library.

I do agree that this is important, and I think more people would 
use `interp` if it came with Phobos rather than in a dub package.