DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Community Review Round 1

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 at 19:34:01 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> Cobol), but as C had so much other things to it, people tended 
> to accept the strange and ugly printf formatting, but it's 
> clear that i was universally loathed. That's why C++ tried this 
> worse shift syntax and other languages tried other solutions.
> It is not because we in the end managed to get used to the 
> outdated and dangerous printf format that it is good in the 
> first place.
> This DIP is simple enough that it is a good candidate imho to 
> be tried.

If something is bad… (…and I agree, printf is not good.) Why 
would you embrace it by making it part of the language?

Currently it only part of a library and can be phased out. Make 
it part of the language and you'll be stuck with it. Creating a 
better solution and create a wrapper for printf and other C-APIs 
would be the better approach.

Otherwise you'll end up with another interpolated string 
version... down the road. How many string-literals can a language 
handle?