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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/03/2024 22:36, Robbe Pincket
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:AS8PR10MB7798C0AB2D5844BCE6A3730AD3292@AS8PR10MB7798.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM"><span lang="EN-US">(I’m not a big fan of `TEMPLATE"Foo: \{bar}"`
either as it’s just so much longer than `"Foo: " + bar`)</span></blockquote>
<p>Note that when I suggested TEMPLATE as a prefix I was obviously
not being super serious :-)</p>
<p>Let's do a test (bear with me). Let's assume the two prefixes
were S and T (not saying I like them, just trying them out for
size). Let's also assume there's no conversion. Then your examples
become:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">```<br>
String s1 = "test" // still a string literal<br>
StringTemplate st2 = T"test" // allowed, constant strings can be
implicitly converted to templates<br>
StringTemplate st3 = "Foo: \{bar}" // Simple string template</span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">String s4c = S"Foo: \{bar}" // short for
String.of("Foo: \{bar}")</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">```</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I think that's not too bad?
(please don't focus too much on the letters).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the sense: the rare cases
(st2) has a prefix. And the operation we want explicit (s4c)
also has a prefix. Everything else is fine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Control question #1: does
the conversion here change things much? Or, are we reaching for
conversions just to have something "shorter" ?<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Control question #2: let's
now assume that S and T were spelled (String) and
(StringTemplate), respectively. How do we feel about this?<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">```<br>
String s1 = "test" // still a string literal<br>
StringTemplate st2 = (StringTemplate)"test" // allowed, cast
from constant string to template<br>
StringTemplate st3 = "Foo: \{bar}" // Simple string template</span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">String s4c = (String)"Foo: \{bar}" // allowed,
cast from template back to String (interpolation)<br>
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">```</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Maurizio<br>
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