Proposal: Embedded Expressions for String Statements

[Stefan Schulz]

Stephen Colebourne schrieb:
> Stefan Schulz wrote:
>  > SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
>  >    String name = "Dave";
>  >    System.out.println("Hello, \{name}!");
> 
> It shoud be noted that Groovy uses
> 
>      "Hello, ${name}!"
> 
> and Fan uses
> 
>      "Hello, $name!"

Right, I mentioned some related languages having this feature in the 
proposal (Fan is not one of them, yet). The $-notation is quite common, 
but I did not want to introduce yet another notation for the String 
itself (e.g. $") that switches the meaning of a String with a single 
character upfront. After all, the proposal is not that much about the 
notation but the feature, so that's up for revisions.

If one goes for distinguishing new Strings that provide this (and/or 
other) features from old style, I'd rather go the full line like using a 
backtick (backquote) or similar.

Stefan