We are forking D

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 09/01/2024 5:18 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 15:34:21 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
> 
>>
>> I want full blown f-strings.
>>
>> I have a formatter all written for it and date/time updated too. Its 
>> pretty nice.
>>
>> But alas, Adam, didn't.
>>
>> Best I could do was argue against locking us in to a different feature 
>> set and keeping it consistent with double quoted strings (``\$`` 
>> instead of ``$$`` escape).
> 
> I don't know why they opted for $$. \ is used for any other escape 
> sequence in D.

I don't either. I'm glad that I managed to argue to make it based upon 
double quoted strings.

Keeping things consistent is important when a decision doesn't matter 
too much otherwise!