DIP 1027--String Interpolation--Final Review Discussion Thread

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 09:11:20 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 2/4/2020 9:48 PM, FeepingCreature wrote:
>> This may sound trivial, but trivial syntax enhancements 
>> matter, especially for a "top-ten" feature like format strings.
>
> It's a fair point, but there's a cost to supporting this. 
> Nothing comes for free, and supporting everything is not 
> practical.

I'd like to add that one of the reasons I utilize format strings 
is because of this switch. The main issue with

foo("I want ", i, "bananas");

It is a lot harder to catch the spacing around 'i'. So rather 
than fix the space I also reorder everything to us format syntax.

I'm on the side of leaning on D's power over C printf. I'd like 
to hear cost over the proposal too, maybe I missed it somewhere 
else?