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Deprecation RFC: legacy Handlebars template syntax - #1249

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Deprecates {{&foo}}, {{^}} as {{else}}, {{^foo}}...{{else}}...{{/foo}} and raw blocks, until 8.0.0. How We Teach This contains the four deprecation guides verbatim.

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Deprecates {{&foo}}, {{^}} as {{else}}, {{^foo}}...{{else}}...{{/foo}}
and raw blocks, until 8.0.0. How We Teach This contains the four
deprecation guides verbatim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the S-Proposed In the Proposed Stage label Oct 14, 2026
ef4 added 2 commits October 14, 2026 09:39
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Deprecation guides written: ember-learn/deprecation-app#1442

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is this intended for just the special handlebars syntaxes?

or also goofy non-JS identifiers as well? (aka "Deprecate everything we don't like"), e.g.: <Foo @kebeb-arg={{...}}>

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We could expand it to cover more cases if we want. I think it makes sense to group a bunch of deprecated syntax features together.

@ef4 ef4 added S-Exploring In the Exploring RFC Stage and removed S-Proposed In the Proposed Stage labels Oct 19, 2026
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