The state of string interpolation

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 14:40:05 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> Perhaps what's needed is a different mixin operator that is 
>> not verbose and significantly distinguishes it from the 
>> template instantiation operator.
>>
>> mixin i!"...";  // instead of this...  (too verbose)
>> i!"...";        // or this... (looks too much like a template 
>> instantiation)
>> i#"...";        // we create a new mixin operator `#`
>>
>> Mike
>
> An interesting idea.
>
> Maybe id#(...) lowers to mixin(id(...)) Or something.

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