Discussion Thread: DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Review Round 2

[Max Haughton]

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 06:22:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/31/2021 3:04 AM, claptrap wrote:
>> Why is "working with printf" so important?
>
> It's a canary. printf has a very simple interface, and if 
> string interpolation doesn't work for simple cases, it is 
> indicative of complexity problems.
>
> Along with, of course, everybody uses printf and printf-style 
> functions (dmd has many), and writef also uses a printf-style 
> format.
>
> I emphasize that #DIP1027 knows nothing about printf or its 
> formats, other than having the default format be `%s`. The 
> default can, of course, be overridden.
>
> Again, DIP1027 KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT PRINTF OR ITS FORMATS.

Cheap solution: p"Blah blah {blah}" for printf style, i"xyz" for 
everything else?