[+msamuel] I don't understand. I see that this proposal references quasis, but I don't see how it subsumes the safety quasis provide against quoting confusions, e.g., that lead to XSS and other injection vulnerabilities. What am I missing?
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Shanjian Li <shanj...@google.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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