On Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 12:38:52 UTC, Commander Zot wrote:
>can we please just have i"whatever ${var}"
to return a fully interpolated string, not a tuple, not a template or anything.
because the common use case is auto s = i"whatever ${var}";
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so maybe just lower it into format("whatever %s", var)
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Then also introduce t"whatever ${var}"
for a tuple/template returned object as a completely seperate proposal and you discuss whatever proposal is better for it YADIP or 1037 or whatever.
this way it's also a lot simpler to understand what is happening for the users.
Interpolated strings, even if they look like it, are NOT strings. They are a obfuscated or better said, conveniently laid out source code.
They contain inside of them, between the {} program code even if it is just a variable name. Strings are strictly just data. Interpolated string is a mix of CODE and data.
By the very nature of what interpolated strings are it is not possible to treat them as strings.