proposal: a new string litteral to embed variables in a string

[Daniel Davidson]

On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 22:33:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Challenge accepted. ;-) Here is an adaptation of Dmitri's code 
> that
> doesn't require you to explicitly pass in variables:
...
> Is that acceptable to you? :)
>

Good stuff.

> Of course, the above code is just a proof-of-concept; it 
> doesn't handle
> integer or other types of variables, and it currently only 
> escapes '"',
> (it should be extended to also escape '\', etc.). But all of 
> these would
> be easily addressed by a proper implementation using std.conv 
> and by
> handling metacharacters properly. The point is that you *can* 
> do string
> interpolation in D without needing language-level support.
>

Absolutely - I was not under the impression it needed to be 
provided by the language proper. But a standard library would be 
nice. I look forward to seeing/using Timothy's version when it is 
ready. Lack of interpolation is one reason I went with Dart for 
my code generation tasks.