Discussion Thread: DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Review Round 2
12345swordy
alexanderheistermann at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 03:12:30 UTC 2021
On Thursday, 4 February 2021 at 20:46:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 February 2021 at 17:05:30 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> This makes using interpolation to generate D code
>> significantly more cumbersome, because '{' is a common
>> character in D code, and every occurrence of it would have to
>> be escaped. It is much easier if the sequence used to
>> introduce an interpolated expression is not a valid D token.
>
> Good! String mixins are evil, just a small step away from
> C-macros...
> Their use should be discouraged and limited to the cases where
> the language falls short.
They are no where close to c-macros. What are you even talking
about?
-Alex
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