String interpolation + some other small changes

After having been invited to make the change in https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/6bee01dd04ef73c6b829110ebcdd622d521ea8ff#commitcomment-6284165 by @witgo.

Author: Jacek Laskowski <jacek@japila.pl>

Closes #748 from jaceklaskowski/sparkenv-string-interpolation and squashes the following commits:

be6ebac [Jacek Laskowski] String interpolation + some other small changes