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

[jmh530]

On Friday, 29 January 2021 at 15:06:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> [snip]
>
> With a metaprogramming wrapper, it would be:
>
> printf(i"${item} %02d${other_item}");
>
> Without a metaprogramming wrapper, you call it like this:
>
> printf("%s %02d", item, other_item); // yes, just use printf 
> the way it was intended
>
> The point of this is, we don't want to fit into printf-style 
> formatting, because it's too niche a need, and extremely 
> limiting. Use the wrapper if you want printf formatting. This 
> is not a burden on anyone (the wrapper took me 15 minutes to 
> write, and is an inlineable no-processing call).
> [snip]

Is there any reason why it needs to be an overload of printf 
instead of a separate function, like say iprintf?