DIP 1026---Deprecate Context-Sensitive String Literals---Community Review Round 1

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 01:26:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> UTF-16 is  <snip>

VERY useful and helps make D on Windows feel first class, so it 
is easy to do things right.

utf-32 doesn't matter, but "string"w is very, very nice for 
working with Windows, .net, java, etc. easily, efficiently, and 
correctly.


> That DIP seems dead in the water though. The author has 
> vanished and nobody has taken up the reins.

The string interpolation thing is cool, I wrote up my proposal, 
I'm just not likely to bother with the burden of DIP bureaucracy. 
Even javascript has some stuff that beats us now.

> As I said, I don't use a syntax highlighter.  Also, any attempt 
> to highlight is moot if the string contains code of a different 
> language (see below for my use cases).

And I use the heredoc strings BECAUSE of how well they can be 
highlighted - again my vim happens to treat q"html and q"sql and 
q"css and others specially knowing they are embedded.

I could do that with something like css!" " too - a template 
instead and the type information could even be improved but still 
the heredoc is kinda cool for syntax highlighting.




BTW if heredoc strings were to be removed.... tbh I can live with 
it. It bugs me that they must end at the beginning of a line. I 
wish it would let you indent it. Seriously bugs me and is a 
reason why I don't use them more.

but still since they are there i use them.