Given that `"use strict"` and `'use strict'` are both valid strict pragmas, should `` `use strict` `` in the same position also be regarded as a valid strict pragma?
Against: * Backtick strings aren't really strings, but a kind of string-related function call, and thus are more complex than the "basic" string literals. Since "use strict" is such an elemental part of the language, only the most basic of structures should be related to it. For: * In the context it's used, it does evaluate to a string (though of course strict pragmas are recognised outside of expression validation - hence this thread) so is essentially just as much a string representation as the other forms. * It's reasonable to expect to *mindfully* use the backtick prolifically as "the new string delimiter", in the same way that one can mindfully use `let` as "the new var", spread as "the new `.apply`" or arrow syntax as "the new `function`". Restricting the use of backticks in this common string usage seems unwarranted. Neutral: * "use strict" is intended to slowly ebb out of the language as module code replaces script code, so it doesn't _really_ matter whether it's extended to permit backticks or not. Thoughts?
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