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

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On 17.12.19 18:12, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I tried this, still prints 5 apples and 6 bananas:
> 
>      int apples = 5;
>      int bananas = 6;
>      auto as = AliasSeq!("%s apples and %s bananas", apples, bananas); 
> // essentially what an interpolated string will evaluate to
>      writefln(as);
>      ++apples;
>      ++bananas;
>      writefln(as);
> 
> It seems that AliasSeq doesn't store the alias (ironically), but the 
> value of the expression at the time.
> 
> Is there a way that this could work? I mean, aside from storing lambdas 
> for everything?

alias as = AliasSeq!("%s apples and %s bananas", apples, bananas);