I think the whole thing is pretty useless, but I guess the point is that with your own template format you could write a string template format that fully escap

I think the whole thing is pretty useless, but I guess the point is that with your own template format you could write a string template format that fully escapes sql variables, for instance. Yes, we already have that problem solved with JPQL or even just plain prepared statement but that’s never stopped anyone… And yes, you could also write a message formatter the current Java that does that…