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

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 11:15:35 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 10:46:11 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>> String interpolation is not solving anything that needs to be 
>> solved, as a consequence, I don't want another 'convenient' 
>> feature added if it's not super-easy to grasp and use.
>>
>> /P
>
> I mean, define "needs to be solved"? Strictly speaking, once 
> you have any Turing complete language, no language developed 
> other is doing something that needs to be solved. What standard 
> do you have for D feature development?

I don't think it's pertinent to this discussion thread, nor 
adding nothing, so I would not go dip in that.

> String interpolation is something that many people wish D had. 
> (See the survey.) Why is that insufficient?

Because it's suboptimal, and not trivial to grasp and use, like 
in other languages.