I disagree with your opinion on whats more readable and what looks
better. Admittedly, its a matter of personal choice... but it so happens
thatthe choice I prefer isn't currently available. I, and others, would
like it to be.
Rob Seeger
Dossy Shiobara wrote on 8/13/2004, 10:23 AM:
> On 2004.08.13, Robert Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > # Lets output some financial data
> > # We need to escape the $ for the monetary units
> >
> > ns_puts [subst {
> > <tr>
> > <td><a ref="link[set $i]">Item $i</a></td>
> > <td>\$$amount($i)</td>
> > </tr>
> > }
>
> Compare that to:
>
> %>
> <tr>
> <td><a ref="link<%= [set $i] %>">Item <%= $i %></a></td>
> <td>$<%= $amount($i) %></td>
> </tr>
> <%
>
> There's a LOT more "escaping" going on in the ASP-style version -- <%=
> and %> are used instead of just one \ ...
>
> > For that type of output, yes its not the best choice. However, there
> are
> > situations where doing it inside an ns_adp_puts is the more hideous of
> > the choices. For example:
> >
> > <table>
> > <%
> > foreach row $rows {
> > foreach {
> > item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6 item7
> > } $row {break}
> > ### Output a lot of html for each row of data
> > %>
> >
> > <tr>
> > <!-- 30 lines of html here that output the items
> > -- and the form elements involved with them
> > -->
> > </tr>
> >
> > %>
> > ### Done with row
> > }
> > %>
> > </table>
>
> I fail to see why the following is more "hideous" than your version
> above:
>
> <table>
> <%
> foreach row $rows {
> foreach {
> item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6 item7
> } $row {break}
> ### Output a lot of html for each row of data
> ns_adp_puts [subst {
> <tr>
> <!-- 30 lines of html here that output the items
> -- and the form elements involved with them
> -->
> </tr>
> }]
> ### Done with row
> }
> %>
> </table>
>
> Instead of %> and <%, my version uses "ns_adp_puts [subst {" and "}]".
>
> The difference is, the actual "30 lines of HTML" that would be where the
> HTML comment is in your version will have much more escaping using <%=
> and %> than in mine where I only need to escape $ and [ and only IF they
> actually appear in the HTML. In your version, every single time you
> want to interpolate some Tcl chunk, you'll need to "escape" it with <%=
> and %>.
>
> Regardless, there's too many folks out there who cut their teeth on web
> scripting on VBScript and ASP to not at least support this style, but
> the less ASP-style ADP code that's out there, the better. Just because
> it's a popular doesn't mean it's better, and most people just think it's
> better because that's what they learned first. It's just resistance to
> change ...
>
> Unless, people really want to debate that Microsoft's known for
> inventing things that really ARE best practices ... as opposed to just
> creating a lot of inertia. I mean, all of those "enhancements" to the
> HTTP protocol and JavaScript and CSS that are in MSIE that aren't
> supported by other browsers ... everyone should do it that way, the
> pages just LOOK better with those extra features ...
>
> -- Dossy
>
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