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

[Jab]

On Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 18:29:10 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 05:34:48 UTC, Jab wrote:
>> If it was important it would already have been implemented, 
>> but no one uses printf as there are better alternatives.
>
> That's wrong, we use printf snprint and sprintf a lot since we 
> can't use D with its runtime (makes too much problems in a 
> shared lib) and

It was a figure of speech. You are most definitely in the 
minority. You can create a convenience wrapper around printf that 
is @nogc so you don't have to use it directly.

> printf still is the gold standard for conversion of float to 
> string.

It's just the most accessible. There are better float to string 
implementations out there.