Discussion Thread: DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Review Round 2
Rikki Cattermole
alphaglosined at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 09:15:36 UTC 2021
On Friday, 29 January 2021 at 08:57:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
Would a pragma i.e.
pragma(rewriteStringIntoFormatVarargs)
extern(C) int printf(const char* fmt, ...);
Make you feel more comfortable with this DIP?
This way only functions which the binding creator says fall into
this style can be called via a interpolated string correctly.
Without any overloads or anything else.
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