Re: simple error

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: simple error
Date	Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:03:10 +0100
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Denis McMahon wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:13:14 +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> 2014-12-28, 20:46, Denis McMahon kirjoitti:
>>> (`) [to delimit one of the strings] might also work (it does in my 
>>> firefox at least).
>> 
>> That’s not advisable. It does not work in other browsers, and it’s not
>> described in any standard or reference. It seems to be a nonstandard
>> feature in Firefox that grave accent (“backtick”, `) characters are
>> recognized as string literal delimiters.
> 
> I wonder if that's a generic thing with the script engine in firefox.
> 
> Hmm, I also wonder if it's firefox, or the Os.
> 
> A quick test suggests it's at least the firefox scripting engine, rather
> than anything specific to element attributes.
> 
> http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/this.htm

The standalone backtick is a syntax error in JavaScript (31) in Iceweasel 
31.3.0.

It is not in the latest working draft of ECMAScript Edition 6, where it 
delimits a template string:

<http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-template-literal-lexical-components>

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simple error Haris Bogdanovich <haris.bogdanovic@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 18:12 +0100
  Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 18:25 +0100
    Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 21:00 +0200
      Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 21:32 +0100
        Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 23:56 +0200
  Re: simple error Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 18:46 +0000
    Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 21:13 +0200
      Re: simple error Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 23:19 +0000
        Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 01:03 +0100
        Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 01:08 +0100
    Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 20:13 +0100
      Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 22:30 +0200
        Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 21:44 +0100
          Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 23:50 +0200
            Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-28 23:10 +0100
              Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 03:10 +0100
                Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 13:17 +0100
                Re: simple error Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-12-29 12:30 +0000
                Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 14:49 +0200
                Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 15:18 +0100
              Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 08:20 +0200
                Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 12:36 +0100
                Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 15:40 +0100
            Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 01:04 +0100
              Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 08:09 +0200

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