Also: given that modules are implicitly strict, you will hardly ever use the
strict directive in ES6.
> On 05 Feb 2015, at 20:20, Steve Fink <sph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/05/2015 05:12 AM, Andy Earnshaw wrote:
>> I think you're missing the point Leon is trying to make. He's saying that,
>> in ES 6 we have a new way to write strings. In some ways, these more
>> powerful strings may condition some people to use ` as their main string
>> delimiter. An unsuspecting person may liken this to PHP's double quotes vs
>> single quotes, thinking that the only difference is that you can use
>> `${variable}` in strings that are delimited with backticks, but other than
>> that everything is the same. When they write this in their code:
>>
>> ```
>> `use strict`;
>> ```
>>
>> They may introduce bugs by writing non-strict code that doesn't throw when
>> it should. Adding it to the spec wouldn't be difficult and it would avoid
>> any potential confusion or difficult-to-debug issues. It's definitely
>> easier than educating people, IMO.
>
> 'use strict' and "use strict" are magic tokens and should stay that way, not
> propagate to other ways of writing literal strings. Literal strings are
> different things, which happen to share the same syntax for
> backwards-compatibility reasons.
>
> If people switch to backticks for all their literal strings, so much the
> better -- then single and double quotes will only be used for directives, and
> there will be less confusion. (I don't actually believe that. At the very
> least, I don't expect JSON to allow backticks anytime soon. Nor do I think
> that using backticks indiscriminately is good practice.)
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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