In the JEP (https://openjdk.org/jeps/430) there is a bunch of prior art:

    C#             $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"
    Visual Basic   $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"
    Python         f"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"
    Scala          s"$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"
    Groovy         "$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"
    Kotlin         "$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"
    JavaScript     `${x} plus ${y} equals ${x + y}`
    Ruby           "#{x} plus #{y} equals #{x + y}"
    Swift          "\(x) plus \(y) equals \(x + y)"

Is any of those actually better? You have a non-existing better suggestion that works in the same cases they outline in the JEP?

I think the following is the main part to keep in mind:

> For Java, we would like to have a string composition feature that achieves the clarity of interpolation but achieves a safer result out-of-the-box, perhaps trading off a small amount of convenience to gain a large amount of safety.