The state of string interpolation...one year later

[Jonathan Marler]

On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 10:11:27 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 March 2019 at 10:40:28 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 March 2019 at 06:01:35 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
>> wrote:
>>>     text("a is", a, ", b is ", b, " and the sum is: ", a + b)
>>>
>>> Ironically, his example had a mistake, but it was hard to
>>> notice.
>>
>> Maybe he wrote that on the forum. In a text editor syntax 
>> highlighting would make the mistake clearer, but it can still 
>> happen. The interpolated syntax is definitely clearer.
>
> Yep. At the time I pointed out I wouldn't have made the same 
> mistake in Emacs.

For me, even with syntax highlighting it's still hard to spot the 
mistake. So it's good to get your perspective which is that you 
know syntax highlighting would have prevented this mistake in 
your case.

Off topic, I enjoyed your talk on emacs, I'm a long time user 
myself.