On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Caitlin Potter <caitpotte...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The history does not matter.
>
Excuse me. "Tagged templates were an addition" sounded like a claim about
history.
> It doesn’t make a difference what someone presented or argued for to a
> room full of people. What matters is how they’re actually used in practice.
>
> There are some libraries which do some clever things with them. They are
> not common, there are not a lot of them, and they don’t necessarily perform
> their tasks easier than a simple recursive descent parser would.
>
> The main use is absolutely string interpolation.
>
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Caitlin Potter <caitpotte...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > JavaScript does not have string interpolation. It has arbitrary value
>> interpolation.
>>
>> Disagree. `foo ${bar} baz` is string interpolation. `${bar}` becomes
>> `ToString(bar)`. Tagged templates were an addition
>>
>
> That is not the history.
>
>
>
>> that weren’t really needed.
>>
>
> Disagree. They were and are the main motivation. The fact that the
> unmarked case does string interpolation is just icing on the cake.
>
>
>
>
>> Since they exist, great, people can come up with some clever uses for
>> them. But they’re hardly the common use case, which is definitely string
>> interpolation
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> JavaScript does not have string interpolation. It has arbitrary value
>> interpolation.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Caitlin Potter <caitpotte...@gmail.com>
>> 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 <
>>> allen.wirfsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 22, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Mark Miller <erig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Caitlin Potter <caitpotte...@gmail.com>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> --MarkM
>
>
>
--
Cheers,
--MarkM
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