Matthew Byng-Maddick
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:13:22 -0700
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Simon Wilcox wrote: > > I avoided HTML::Embperl, HTML::Mason & Apache::ASP because they all > > embed perl into the template which is a Bad Thing (tm). > Why is that so evil? > I'm willing to be enlightened here. Mainly maintainability. In the same way as it's evil to mix two types of language - Perl and SQL, although people seem to be a lot more prepared to do this :-( The point is that if you are embedding perl, there are too many places that things can be changed. It is possible to write embedded perl templates well, but a lot more difficult than if they are separated out. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/