DIP 1027--String Interpolation--Final Review Discussion Thread

Tove tove at fransson.se
Sun Feb 2 16:31:47 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 2 February 2020 at 16:21:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 03:31:46PM +0000, Tove via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Implict conversion to string would trigger allocations!
>
>  indeed but you can also just not do that; you do need to 
> specift string
>  to trigger alias this.
>
>
>  but i personally would also be oj with explicit toString call, 
> my point
>  is really with a struct we can do it all, whereas with the dip 
> as-is we
>  privilege one niche case at the expense of almost all others.

Yes, but my primary concern is calling functions with string 
parameters.

Otherwise I fully agree with you, I prefer your struct solution 
with added explict toString and implicit tuple expansion.



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