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

[aberba]

On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 at 09:52:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> This is the feedback thread for the first round of Community 
> Review for DIP 1027, "String Interpolation":
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/148001a963f5d6e090bb6beef5caf9854372d0bc/DIPs/DIP1027.md
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> All review-related feedback on and discussion of the DIP should 
> occur in this thread. The review period will end at 11:59 PM ET 
> on December 25, or when I make a post declaring it complete.
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> Review. Otherwise, it will be queued for the Final Review and 
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> . It also makes interpolated strings agnostic about what the 
> format specifications are, as long as they start with %.

Is there a reason it's not $ instead of %? String interpolation 
is most commonly use languages works like "my name is ${name}". 
Wouldn't it be easier if we target something users may already be 
familiar with?