> The point here is that if we *were* to use back-tick then it would be worth
> considering making it escape capable *and* interpolate capable - i.e. there
> would be more going on. It would certainly solve one part of the balancing
> act in terms of what people may want to use ' and " delimited strings. (I'd
> suggest making it syntactic sugar for 'function("...")’).
Hmm… so say merge(“ string “, resolve escapes) = ` string ` ? I’ve got to say I
wasn’t thinking of interpolation as I thought that merge does that sufficiently
well.
>
> However, there are other options too - at the end of the day is
> 'format("...")' actually too onerous on occasions you want escaping?
Yes, unless you can use it in a constant or variable declaration which would be
unusual and a bit too special casey for me:
constant kSomething = format(“this\tis\todd”)
> P.S. We should see if we can schedule some time in the next sprint to
> actually do that analysis properly and *then* garner feedback.
Sure if you it’s a priority. The PR is only up there because I got interested
in something on a rainy Sunday arvo. It’s not like we haven’t got other stuff
to do and this bike shed seems to be rather large ;-)
Cheers
Monte
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