Template strings and templates

[Norbert Lindenberg]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 15:46 , Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:

> – Regular expressions: https://gist.github.com/slevithan/4222600
> – Escaping the variable parts of domain-specific languages
> – HTML templates (think Facebook’s React)
> – Internationalization

Not internationalization. The strawman page for template strings (quasi-literals back then) included some ideas for how they might be used for internationalization and localization, but internationalization generally doesn't allow localizable strings to be embedded in source code (specialized environments like Closure may be an exception). In addition, message formatting has requirements that cannot be addressed with template strings - for example, gender support may require additional variables to be provided that are only used in some languages, not in others, but template strings don't provide a way to pass unused variables:

On Mar 6, 2014, at 18:51 , Domenic Denicola <domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

> // Localization and formatting
> l10n`Hello ${name}; you are visitor number ${visitor}:n! You have ${money}:c in your account!`

A correct German translation of this would have to take the gender of the visitor into consideration:
Male: l10n`Hallo, Herr ${name}; Sie sind Besucher Nummer ${visitor}:n. Sie haben ${money}:c auf Ihrem Konto.`
Female: l10n`Hallo, Frau ${name}; Sie sind Besucherin Nummer ${visitor}:n. Sie haben ${money}:c auf Ihrem Konto.`

How would you do that with template strings?

Norbert