Tag Template Functions - What Are They Used For?

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I can't imagine any use case where you would want to use concatenation. I think it's hard to read harder to read rather than just the backtext. Tag template functions are when you have a template tag, a backtext string and you put a word in front of it that is actually a function. It's often used for things like templating.

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