I mean equivalence to untagged behavior, if that helps. FWIW, as stated previously, I'm not married to the name. On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 20:31 Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 5:24 PM Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The template is being expanded as if the template itself is untagged. > > > Does this mean that you describe what tagged templates do, or what > untagged templates do, as "expanding" something? If so, what is the > intuition behind that prior usage of "expand"? > > > >> The point of this is a template tag that just does the default untagged >> behavior of coercing all expressions to strings and joining the whole thing >> together. >> > > I certainly agree that the name should suggest equivalence to the default > untagged behavior. I just never would have thought to describe that > behavior as "expanding" something. What is it expanded into? > > > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 20:21 Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What is the intuition behind "expand"? What is being expanded, and what >>> is it expanding into? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:59 PM Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Those names a little too generic for my liking here. What about >>>> `String.expand(template, ...params)`? >>>> >>>> And also, let's not try to bake a traditional template engine into the >>>> JS spec - syntactic template strings already work well enough. >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> >>>> Isiah Meadows >>>> [email protected] >>>> www.isiahmeadows.com >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:13 AM Michael Luder-Rosefield >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Why not String.tag or .tagged? >>>> > >>>> > While we're at it, is there any good reason not to have something >>>> like this: >>>> > >>>> > ``` >>>> > String.template = (template : String, >>>> taggerFn=String.identity/tag/tagged : Function) => (keys : Array | Object) >>>> => taggerFn(template, (keys is Array) ? ...keys : keys) >>>> > // apologies for pseudo-semi-functional code >>>> > // having keys be an object allows template to be filled by key name >>>> rather than just index >>>> > ``` >>>> > This would make templates closer to the traditional usage, where the >>>> template comes first and is later passed values to be filled in with. >>>> Having the taggerFn as an argument allows for things like Isiah's >>>> escape-then-apply tagging examples. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 12:51 Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> I'm not married to `identity`, and I agree the name is probably not >>>> >> ideal. I'm more concerned about functionality, though. >>>> >> >>>> >> ----- >>>> >> >>>> >> Isiah Meadows >>>> >> [email protected] >>>> >> www.isiahmeadows.com >>>> >> >>>> >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 5:41 AM T.J. Crowder >>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> > >>>> >> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:08 PM Isiah Meadows >>>> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > It'd be *way* easier to construct simple template tags if there >>>> was a >>>> >> > > built-in identity tag >>>> >> > >>>> >> > Wholeheartedly agree, a couple of months ago I considered posting >>>> something very similar, both for utility reasons and in hopes that it would >>>> be an optimization target (being a standard operation). >>>> >> > >>>> >> > I find the name `identity` unilluminating, though, partially >>>> because it's not quite the same meaning as the usual "identity" function >>>> (`function identity(x) { return x; }`), though it's close. `assemble`? >>>> >> > >>>> >> > -- T.J. Crowder >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>> >> es-discuss mailing list >>>> >> [email protected] >>>> >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> es-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> --MarkM >>> >> > > -- > Cheers, > --MarkM >
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