Re: Reviving E4X (H4E)?

[+msamuel]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>wrote:

>
> I have a larger concern here, which is that we're implicitly forcing
> literals to be XML, while the rest of the document is HTML. The closer
> we can get to HTML for something like this, the better (IMO).



To emphasize Alex's point here, quasi-literals provides a mechanism for
avoiding injection attacks in any language for which you have a quasi-parser
-- whether XML, HTML, SQL, RegExp, or whatever -- all for the price of one
bit of additional syntactic sugar and no new semantics. Both vastly lighter
than E4X and vastly more useful.

E4X is dead. Long live quasi-literals!


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    Cheers,
    --MarkM