Discussion Thread: DIP 1036--Formatted String Tuple Literals--Community Review Round 1

[James Lu]

On Saturday, 12 September 2020 at 14:53:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 September 2020 at 14:37:45 UTC, James Lu wrote:
>> [...]
>
> That's basically the C# solution.
>
> That is good if we just doing simple values, but it fails for 
> D's unique compile-time things and is iffy with ref and 
> non-copyable types.
>
> I wrote about it in more detail in my blog last year:
>
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2019_05_13.html#hybrid-library-solutions
>
> In short, things like `ref`, `enum`, and `alias`-ness of data 
> are lost through that layer.
>
> So good, but not great because it doesn't build on D's other 
> existing strengths.
>
>
>
> Me and Steven continue to argue in a chat btw, we're whittling 
> each other's ideas down and we're coming to something you all 
> will prolly like...
>
> so stay tuned.

I don't know C# at all.

I have participated in Python language design discussions.