# Template Literals Juxtaposition and String.join

**URL:** <https://es.discourse.group/t/template-literals-juxtaposition-and-string-join/859>\
**Category:** 💡 Ideas\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/template-literals-juxtaposition-and-string-join/859 "2021-07-14T11:41:47Z")\
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What about the alternative of allowing empty interpolations (`${}` → `${/* ... */}`) and simply ignoring them for the purpose of template literal parsing? This would also carry the benefit of allowing template-level comments within arbitrary tagged template literals without needing the tag itself to specially handle empty strings or anything like that.

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