>>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
GE> Also, it uses up one of the three precious not-yet-used
GE> characters, and I think we should keep those for some
GE> future time when we really need them. We don't need one
GE> for this -- there are plenty of operators available
GE> that haven't yet been used on strings.
GE> I suggest '^', since it does a nice job of suggesting
GE> "inject stuff into this string". We can have both a
GE> prefix form for compile-time interpolation:
GE> a = ^ "My name is $name"
GE> and an infix form for run-time interpolation:
GE> a = "My name is $name" ^ dict
I think I suggested using ~ for this at IPC10:
a = ~'my name is $name'
for the compile-time interpolation. I don't think it matters much
which operator is chosen (let Guido decide).
-Barry
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