On Tue, Jul 29, 2025, at 2:22 PM, Hans Krentel wrote: > On Monday 14 July 2025 15:29:31 (+02:00), Larry Garfield wrote:
>> Is their use for quick hacky scripts worth the cost of reserving a symbol >> that could be repurposed for something else more generally useful in the >> future? (Not immediately of course, but eventually.) >> >> --Larry Garfield *snip* > My educated guess is that I don't need to explain the benefits of > _template literals_ over ordinary PHP string literals for Larry, but > for those who are curious, this is inspired by EcmaScript and you can > try it out in your browser or read on MDN about it. Indeed, that's the sort of future reuse I was thinking of as well. But having this be a template: $foo = tpl`Something $here`; But this run a shell command: $foo = `Something $here`; Strikes me as a security nightmare waiting to happen. --Larry Garfield
