The state of string interpolation...one year later

Nicholas Wilson iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 17 08:30:46 UTC 2019


On Sunday, 17 March 2019 at 06:01:35 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> CON 2. Real error messages.  What's one of the most annoying 
> parts of mixins?  Error messages.  When you get an error in a 
> mixin, you don't get a line of code to go fix, you get an 
> "imaginary" line that doesn't exist.

Just a note that you can make it exist with -mixin=filename

> So what's next?

Dconf! I've added this to the list of topics for the foundation 
meeting where we can get a lot of these decisions made.

> For me personally, I am surprised at the amount of interest 
> this feature continues to garner.  I think the feature is a net 
> positive for D, but then again I don't think it's a "make or 
> break" feature.  Just a "nice addition".

Indeed, I hadn't realised how much nicer that would make dealing 
with formatting mixins, thanks for that.


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