The shell has a lot of niceties ( including being overly permissive on single vs double quotes, :-(
The shell has a lot of niceties ( including being overly permissive on single vs double quotes, :-( ) which embedders have to reproduce

The double-quoted string misfeature is now disabled by default for CLI buildsnevermind, thankfully that's gone in 3.41.0

user: token then you might read user and there's nothing, so you now have a cached 404.token: user, then there is no reason for you to read it before you've generated the token so it's more resistant to having cached 404's.d1api.first`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${id}`
user: tokenusertoken: userd1api.first`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${id}`