Re: ?js_string double escapes - is this wanted ?

>> Hello Grégory
>> 
>> How do you suggest handling backslash (\) in the input then? Do you want FreeMarker to check if the next character is a quote? How about \""?
> 
> Treat them the same way ? If whatever after a backslash is something we'd prepend with a backslash, then just ignore that ?

However \"" is not escaped text, as it contains an unescaped quote. 

Consider:
input -> escaped -> unescaped
\\a -> \\\\a -> \\a
\\\a -> \\\\a -> \\a
"a" -> \"a\" -> "a"
\"a" -> \"a\" -> "a"

With current js_string, the unescaped string is the same as the input string. Your proposition would break this. 

Can't you just repeat unescape twice?

-- Denis. 

> 
>> That sounds unsafe.
>> 
>> -- Denis.
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> Just noticed that ${"don't do this"?js_string?js_string} would output "don\\'t do this". Shouldn't the built-in be smart enough to notice when quotes are already escaped ? Or is there a good reason for this ?
>>> 
>>> I'd rather it doesn't double-escape, so I can add ?js_string to my templates safely, even if some of the model's code is already doing escaping for some reason.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts ?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> -greg
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