- From: ☻Mike Samuel <msamuel@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:16:07 -0500
- To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
- Cc: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Adam Klein <adamk@google.com>, Erik Aarvidson <arv@google.com>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 16:11, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:55 PM, ☻Mike Samuel wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>> /be
>>
>> 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.
>
> No, template was never reserved -- not in Java, so not reserved by me in 1995, or in ES1 based on that. And we unreserved a bunch of Java's keywords in ES5. No C++ templates in sight.
>
> Does template carry too much other baggage (e.g. JQuery template plugins)? I don't know.
The jquery function is such a chameleon that jquery`...` could
probably be made to work for a subset of jquery templates excluding
{{each}}.
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