On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 07:46:18 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Ola Fosheim Grøstad:
I also want to see string mixins removed from phobos. It is a
very ugly feature.
What are your problems with those strings?
1. Source level analysis: Hard to write programs that transform
source.
2. Easy to write ugly code: It suffers from the same issues as
macros.
3. Language integration: It is desirable to have an application
level language that can integrate well with a low level language
when calling out to system level libraries.
4. Uniform conventions: a lambda is more generic.
A lambda allows you to call into another language because it can
be translated to the same intermediate format. An incomplete
string is on a different level.
