On 3/11/2024 10:36 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:
Overall, though, I am not so enthused about creating yet another new
lexical mechanism for having different kinds of stringy things.
All strings -- not just string literals, and not just constant
expressions of type String -- can be composed with +. Is there an
equivalent composition operator for string templates? (That is, all
values of type StringTemplate, not just template literals.)
I ask because the more lexical similarity between a template literal and
a string literal, the more I think people will try to use + with two
template literals, or with one template literal and one string literal.
AIUI the result will be a surprise:
String s = "Hello" + "\{x}";
// Second operand to + undergoes string conversion a.k.a. toString()
print(s); // Hello0x12345678
Alex
