Re: Reviving E4X (H4E)?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<allen@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:55 PM, ☻Mike Samuel wrote:
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>> I'm happy with either "string interpolation" or "template".  I can't
>> find "template" in FutureReservedWord, but I thought it was in there.
>> If so it would be odd to have a language feature named "template" but
>> not have any relation to the future reserved word.
>>
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> There are a lot of concepts in JS that don't have corresponding reserved words.  Object is one that comes immediately to mind. Quasi also isn't a reserved word, but so what.
>
> I also suspect that "string interpolation" would also be scary to significant subset of JS programmers.

How about "formatting"?

Received on Thursday, 20 October 2011 08:35:06 UTC