On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 6:10 AM Jim Baker <jim.baker@python.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 12:56 PM Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
On 5 Jul 2021, at 08:07, Thomas Güttler <info@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
This means backticks, but without the dollar sign.
In bash the backtick was so often a problem that $(cmd) was added.
Having removes the grit-on-Tim's-screen backtick in python 3 I would not like to see it return with its issue of being confused with single-quote.
One mitigation is that the backtick should always require a tag as a prefix. So seeing something like
elem = html`<p>Some item: {value}</p>`
is hopefully fairly obvious what's going on - it's not just going to be mixed up with a single quote. Uses like log(f`foo`) should be hopefully discouraged, in the same way that we don't use l (that's the lower-case letter L if you're not reading this email with the numeric codepoints) as a variable, but we are happy enough to write something like limit = 42 - it's clear in the context.
Question: what's the advantage of this magic syntax over something much simpler: elem = html(i'<p>Some item: {value}</p>') That avoids the backtick problem because it actually IS an apostrophe. Or a double quote. Or triple quotes, whatever you want to use. It's the exact format already used for other special string literal types, including f-strings. ChrisA