Suggestion: string interpolation

[RyanCavanaugh]

Support ES6-style template strings

http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/template-strings/

To be determined: Can we generate code for pre-ES6 targets? What does that look like?

[duncanmak]

I'm interested in working on this. I had a local fork for the 0.9 compiler that included parser changes to allow foo strings, and was preparing to start working on emitting code.

With the new compiler work underway, what's the best way for an external contributor to help out here?

[mhegazy]

Thanks @duncanmak, a PR would be a good way to share your proposal with us. Since this is a bigger change than normal bug fixes, I would suggest sharing your changes early so that you can get feedback as you go.

Feel free to tag me, or email me directly if you have any questions.

Please follow the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md and submit a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before submitting the pull request.

[basarat]

👍

Codeplex issue : https://typescript.codeplex.com/workitem/19

[styfle]

This would be great to have in TypeScript 👍

[BurtHarris]

+1: A highly desirable enhancement.

[ryanbnl]

Unless I'm missing something, codegen for < ES6 should be just a case of removing the line-end character(s) and correctly escaping single and double-quote.

[ryanbnl]

It would be especially nice if this were to support type annotations which could be determined in the lexer. So you could annotate a string as containing HTML which editors could use to provide highlighting, autocomplete etc.

Or better yet, something similar to Nemerle's macros (see: http://nemerle.org/About).

[DanielRosenwasser]

As a heads up, I'm currently taking this on.