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VagabundoP

Most people really like python f-strings.

You might be on your own here.

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You missed half of what I said. Look at Swift.

To quote myself:

Yea, f-strings are nice. But f-strings, r-strings, \ escaping, {{ escaping, ''' strings? Horrible.

Swift strings have ONE string. Just a single clean design that does all of that. With a simple set of rules.

I suppose Swift copied Ruby's strings, then.

Looking at Ruby strings it seems not. They have at least two special syntaxes: escaping and interpolation. They seem to have some weird "<<-" thing to, so that's another special thing. That's at least three things so far. Oh, and %q strings is a thing. Four things.

Swift has just 1 string.

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