[squeak-dev] Re: [vwnc] Does anyone have a "new" string literal?

Fri Feb 1 18:33:00 UTC 2013

Dave's brilliance is beyond dispute, but that looks very familiar somehow - isn't it something like what used to happen in Seaside?
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> David Leibs has been pushing a well-thought-through facility he calls (and other systems name) "quasi-quote".  Here, a string literal contains escape sequences, a little like printf, that allow one to substitute values.  Dave's syntax uses square brackets to escape into Smalltalk.  So that (IIRC) you say things like
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>     '<html><head></head><body><H1>[myHeading]</H1>'

tim
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