From 69d724f5549934e2c9997cd371384631d775d784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivo Gabe de Wolff <ivogabe@ivogabe.nl>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:58:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix tagged templates that consist of a single part
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Example:
foo `bar` should compile to foo([“bar”])
---
 src/compiler/emitter.ts | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/compiler/emitter.ts b/src/compiler/emitter.ts
index 54683c5e393..602e4ccc12c 100644
--- a/src/compiler/emitter.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/emitter.ts
@@ -2048,7 +2048,12 @@ module ts {
             }
 
             function getTemplateLiteralAsStringLiteral(node: LiteralExpression): string {
-                return '"' + escapeString(node.text) + '"';
+                if (node.parent.kind === SyntaxKind.TaggedTemplateExpression) {
+					// Emit tagged template as foo(["string"])
+					return '["' + escapeString(node.text) + '"]';
+				} else {
+					return '"' + escapeString(node.text) + '"';
+				}
             }
 
             function emitTemplateExpression(node: TemplateExpression): void {