Actually, it would be cool if some sugar could be done for the example I
just did:

var template = compile`
Hello ${{first_name}}
`;

template({ first_name: "John" });


- Matthew Robb

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Robb <matthewwrobb at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I might be wrong and either way it's probably too ugly to be serious but
> couldn't you, using a template tag, do something like the following:
>
> var template = compile`
> Hello ${"first_name"}
> `;
>
> template({ first_name: "John" });
>
>
> - Matthew Robb
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Domenic Denicola <d at domenic.me> wrote:
>>
>>  You want templates, which is something provided by many libraries
>> (Handlebars, etc.). The language provides template strings as a syntactic
>> feature.
>>
>>
>>
>> Templates and template strings are very different. Don’t be fooled by the
>> name into thinking that templates are some sort of natural feature addition
>> to template strings; they’re in fact a different concept altogether.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] *On Behalf Of
>> *Niloy Mondal
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 06:48
>> *To:* Andrea Giammarchi
>> *Cc:* es-discuss at mozilla.org
>> *Subject:* Re: how to delay interpolation of template strings?
>>
>>
>>
>> Can this be considered for a feature request? Provision in the language
>> to dynamically construct template strings and interpolate them.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  irony ... I think you would need to evaluate the template string inline
>> in order to interpolate its result ...
>>
>>
>>
>> OR
>>
>>
>>
>> you just go for this method which also works down to ES3 engine:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/8f227532143e63649804
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Niloy Mondal <niloy.mondal84 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   Thanks, this would work.
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I construct a template string dynamically? Like reading the
>> template from a file/database and then interpolate it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Claude Pache <claude.pache at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  Le 16 déc. 2014 à 09:27, Niloy Mondal <niloy.mondal84 at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>> I want to define a template string using backquotes in a different file
>> and then have it interpolated with actual values in a different file. How
>> can I do it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Just enclose it in a function:
>>
>>
>>
>> ```javascript
>>
>>    function foo(a) {
>>
>>         return `some template ${a}`
>>
>>     }
>>
>>
>>
>>     foo("bar") // will evaluate `some template ${"bar"}`
>>
>> ```
>>
>>
>>
>> —Claude
>>
>>
>>
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Actually, it would be cool if some sugar could be done for the example I
just did:

```js
var template = compile`
Hello ${{first_name}}
`;

template({ first_name: "John" });
```