JavaScript does not have string interpolation. It has arbitrary value interpolation.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Caitlin Potter <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, but usability wise, this kind of sucks. There's a reason it's not > what people expect, and why other languages with string interpolation > behave differently. > > On Oct 22, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Caitlin Potter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Cute, but nobody is realistically going to do that. >> > > Since `${}` is a static error, what do you realistically think people will > do? Especially if they meant `${''}`, how do you expect them to react to > the static error? > > > Just like they do if they have a line of code that reads: > > ```js > str = ; > ``` > > when they meant > > ```js > str = ‘’; > ``` > > It’s just a syntax error. I probably have syntax errors in 50% of the > lines that I initially type. I parse, and then fix. > > Allen > > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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