Discussion Thread: DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Review Round 2

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On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 10:33:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> This is the discussion thread for the second round of Community 
> Review of DIP 1036, "String Interpolation Tuple Literals":
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/344e00ee2d6683d61ee019d5ef6c1a0646570093/DIPs/DIP1036.md
>
> The review period will end at 11:59 PM ET on February 10, or 
> when I make a post declaring it complete. Discussion in this 
> thread may continue beyond that point.
>
> Here in the discussion thread, you are free to discuss anything 
> and everything related to the DIP. Express your support or 
> opposition, debate alternatives, argue the merits, etc.
>
> However, if you have any specific feedback on how to improve 
> the proposal itself, then please post it in the feedback 
> thread. The feedback thread will be the source for the review 
> summary that I will write at the end of this review round. I 
> will post a link to that thread immediately following this 
> post. Just be sure to read and understand the Reviewer 
> Guidelines before posting there:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/docs/guidelines-reviewers.md
>
> And my blog post on the difference between the Discussion and 
> Feedback threads:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/26/dip-reviews-discussion-vs-feedback/
>
> Please stay on topic here. I will delete posts that are 
> completely off-topic.

I am going to respond a comment in the feed back thread that bugs 
me.


>> requires the GC

>D needs to move away from such constructs.

No, it doesn't. I am starting to believe that the gc phobia that 
has been spread by the c++/c people has been a mistake, if d is 
starting to turn down productivity features because of it.

-Alex