what do you mean by dynamically creating directives? please elaborate. On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:17:13 PM UTC-5, Nick Retallack wrote: > > Today I tried to dynamically create and use some directives at runtime. > Then I realized I have to spell them differently when I create them from > when I use them. This is silly. Now I have to procedurally translate them > between camelCase and snake-case myself. > > One of my previous co-workers also thought this was stupid. He was > looking at my angular templates and then trying to grep the source code for > where those attributes are used. If I were using jQuery, those attributes > would have shown up in the source code in selectors. But since it's > angular, they were camelCased, and thus un-greppable. > > Being able to grep your source code for identifiers is one of those > unspoken rules of software development, isn't it? > > Since a directive's name is just a string, why can't we just write it the > way it is going to appear, in snake-case? I've heard the argument that it > needs to be a valid JavaScript identifier, but when is it ever interpreted > in JavaScript? Angular is moving toward Polymer anyway, and in Polymer you > have to name tags with dashes in them in the first place. >
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