Re: Reviving E4X (H4E)?

On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

> [+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!

I love quasis and don't mind their hunchback-like name, but others say it is a scary unknown neologism. Can we have a better term?

For the unprefixed `... ${...} ...` form we could say "string interpolation". That's a mouthful but it is a known phrase.

Sorry to bikeshed the name! If that's the biggest problem (and it may be), well done to you and Mike.

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