Interpolated strings

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 17 April 2017 at 19:38:33 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 20:04:13 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> [...]
>
> C# got this feature recently. I didn't expect it to be a 
> significant difference, but I do find it a substantial 
> improvement. Not only does it clearly show what goes where, but 
> it's so much cleaner and more convenient.

I don't understand how

writeln($"{a} times 3 is {a * 3}");

is even marginally better than

writeln(a, " times 3 is ", a * 3);  // look ma, works right now!

It's not even fewer characters.

Atila