DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Community Review Round 1

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Dec 14 08:26:23 UTC 2019


On 12/11/2019 10:58 AM, Robert Schadek wrote:
 > Not being able to use * will stop me using this feature in many places.

That's right. I have a fix for that!

> I thought the idea was not to introduce language changes if a library solution 
> can do most of it already.

I tried. It just doesn't get us there without some awkward syntax.

> TL/DR: not a fan

A reasonable point of view. D works fine without interpolated strings. This also 
motivated the design to stick to something as simple as possible - just a dash 
of syntactic sugar.



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