DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Community Review Round 1
Tove
tove at fransson.se
Sat Dec 14 21:35:51 UTC 2019
On Saturday, 14 December 2019 at 21:22:41 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 12/14/2019 7:07 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> The point is not just to put the expressions where they
>> belong, but to be less verbose about it. The dance of quotes
>> and commas is hard to read and hard to write.
>
> "I ate ",
> apples,
> " and ",
> bananas,
> " totalling ",
> apples + bananas,
> " fruit."
>
> isn't too bad. Formatting, though, won't change the issue with
> format strings and the disconnect between the arguments and
> their positions.
Is format strings worth building on?
With UFCS we could create types which control formatting
"pi=", pi.dec(10),
255, " in hex ", 255.hex
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