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

[Walter Bright]

On 1/29/2021 12:46 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> I agree, we shouldn't need to write the mapper function which Steven wrote 
> ourselves.
> 
> We (Steven and I) discussed this on Discord and left it at the function should 
> not be included in the DIP. From a UX POV, it should be just a matter of doing 
> an alias IMO. But that isn't really a goal of a DIP to specify such utility.

Even if it becomes part of Phobos, overloading C functions imported from 
external C libraries in general makes me uncomfortable, because it hides the 
fact that the C function isn't being called. I never liked C macros like:

     #define printf(...) printf("abc" ...)

for the same reason.