Re: E4H and constructing DOMs

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Rick Waldron wrote:
> 
> E4H is a language level syntax extension that appears to duplicate the 
> functionality provided by Template Strings, while restricting usage to a 
> web/DOM-centric concept (CORS same-origin or Worker context)—effectively 
> creating a "version". It also uses one of the remaining unambiguous 
> ascii characters "@". Granted, it's an interesting experiment, but 
> Template Strings are capable of "all this and more".

To be fair, unless they've changed quite substantially since the last time 
I saw them, quasis don't do the one thing that is E4H's whole point, 
namely compile-time syntax checking.

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