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

[Jonathan Marler]

On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 07:12:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/3/2020 5:06 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> Some applications want the "Strings and Expressions" form 
>> rather than the "Format String" form.
>
> To have "strings and expressions" then write it that way:
>
>     foo("I want ", i, " bananas");

I explained why I thought it would be better for interpolated 
strings to resolve to "Strings and Expressions" rather than 
"Format Strings". Then you responded saying you can write 
"Strings and Expressions" without interpolated strings.  However, 
I'm not sure what the relevance is.  You can also write "Format 
Strings" without interpolated strings, like this:

foo("I want %s bananas", bananas);

But I'm not sure how these facts help us determine which form 
interpolated strings should resolve to?