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

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 3 February 2021 at 20:02:57 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
> Wouldn't this lowering be both simpler and more more efficient?

Your change wouldn't expose the string for compile time 
processing.

That's the real benefit of interp!"string" - it is available for 
CTFE rewriting by the function. So putting that on the whole 
thing means a whole format string or translation string or 
whatever else can be CTFE generated, inspected, etc.

> 2) Also no fan of using abbreviated type-names(interp) in 
> userfacing API:s

yeah, it is ambiguous with "interpretation" too.