Just because it's a slow Thursday on this forum
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 9 10:02:50 PST 2016
On 02/09/2016 10:34 AM, ixid wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 12:46:34 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>> I'm not a fan of non-trivial string mixins except in extenuating
>> circumstances.
>
> This is something Steven Schveighoffer commented on in these discussions
> as well. As this is a fundamental D feature and it's currently rather
> clunky and hard to use it would suggest this needs improvement. What
> should be done with it if anything and with what methods?
An alternate solution is liable to be too clever for its own good.
Everybody and their cat understands string concatenation. What we need
here is better tactical tools, e.g. a simple string
template/interpolation engine. -- Andrei
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