EcmaScript lacks a method to format strings in a flexible and controllable manner. Most EcmaScript strings are constructed by concatenating a series of substrings. Such practice really hurts code readability. Especially for localization, it is almost impossible to translate the string when it is split into multiple pieces. This problem has been identified long before. Brendan Eich proposed something in 2006 for ECMA 3 (discussion<http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:string_formatting>). Mike Samuel’s quasis<http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:quasis>and Douglas Crockford’s string_format<http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format>each proposed a solution as well. This proposal references those proposals, and borrows many ideas introduced by Python ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/). This proposal also applies lessons learned in Localization (l10n) and Internationalization (i18n) practice, both in Javascript and other languages. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format_take_two
Please kindly review the proposal and let me know your feedback. shanjian
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