btw, another argument is type safety: my proposal has type safety inherited from typesafe variadic templates, whereas the "%s" way of doing things is fragile:

import std.stdio;

void main(){

writefln("%s%s%s\n",1,2);//crash at RT

writefln("%s%s\n",1,2,3);//silently accepts even though 1 more argument

writefln("%s%d\n",1,"foo");//crash at RT: wrong format specifier

}

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> wrote:

On 2013-10-31 22:24, Timothee Cour wrote:

the proposed new syntax
r{var1=@a; and var2=@foo}

is replaced by a tuple:
("var1=", a, "; and var2=", foo)
where @ denotes escaping symbols.

@ itself be escaped with \@.

optionally, expressions can be incorporated:
r{a2=@(a*2); and fooU=@(foo.toUpper)}

Would @ be the best symbol for this. It might get confusing with UDA's.

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/Jacob Carlborg