On Friday, 29 January 2021 at 15:06:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On 1/29/21 3:02 AM, Walter Bright wrote: >> [...] > > With a metaprogramming wrapper, it would be: > > printf(i"${item} %02d${other_item}"); > > [...] +1 I've been using {} in C# for years and it's no effort.