String Interpolation

[Bradley Chatha]

On Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 16:30:07 UTC, Arafel wrote:
> I also think that interpolated strings should behave like... 
> well, strings. Anything else would break the principle of least 
> astonishment, and it's not certainly what some people might 
> expect, me among them. If you must do it, please just don't 
> call it "interpolated **string**".

Agreed. There were advocates for such a thing in the original set 
of discussions (including myself), but I can safely say that it's 
best to completely give up on such an idea.

There's a lack of desire to make language features rely on the 
GC. There also seems to now be regrets that D even has 
DRuntime(?), so adding any extra features or reliance on it is an 
instant no-go?

Regrettably, -betterC seems to now be the de-facto design pillar 
for this feature. While I do understand the arguments on why we 
can't just have `string a = i"1 + 1 = ${1 + 1}"` work and we have 
to be super special, quirky, and different, it just kinda sucks 
overall.