Question SpeedScript & Javascript backtick conflict

[JamesBowen]

Problem:

In my webspeed html page I have embed JavaScript code. The JavaScript code includes backticks ( ` ) . In WebSpeed the backtick has a special purpose and so the webspeed code can't compile because of the conflicting javasctipt. As I understand it, the JavaScript language evolved to include the backtick in 2015.

<script>

const name = "James";
const role = "OpenEdge Developer";

const message = `Hello ${name}, your role is ${role}.`;

console.log(message);
</script>

Workaround:

My workaround solution is to substitute the backtick ` character with `chr(96)`.
This is ugly, but it's the only thing that works. I was hoping to use a tilde character to escape the back ticks i.e. ~` , but this did not work.

<script>

const name = "James";
const role = "OpenEdge Developer";

const message = `chr(96)`Hello ${name}, your role is ${role}.`chr(96)`;

console.log(message);
</script>

The other solution was to place the Javascript code into a separate .js file, but this seems like an overkill.

Is it worth perusing with Progress to create a solution?