[plt-scheme] ajax and plt

On Jul  2, Dave Gurnell wrote:
> [...]
> To my knowledge, neither of these libraries compile actual Scheme into  
> Javascript, but they both have a parenthetic syntax for writing  
> Javascript code. So, for example, in Mirrors you can do stuff like this:
> 
>      (js (alert ,(string-append "Hello " "world"))
> 
> I use Mirrors with jQuery quite a lot;
> 
>      (js (!dot ($ "#mybutton")
>                (click (function () (alert "Hi")))))

I'm curious -- is there any advantage for this over something like:

 (let ([msg "Hello world"])
   @js{alert(@msg)})

(Random example, since using `string-append' is even more boring in
this style.)

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