Though me and you are C++ experts, please forget about C and C++.
I'd like to see any tiny bit of *constructive criticism*.
Don't know why, but you are arguing not against my arguments.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Russell Keith-Magee
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Yuri Baburov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I suggest {{ foo->bar }} syntax. It is simple, common to programmers,
> > easy to remember and recognize, does not interfere with any other
> > features.
>
> -1.
>
> 1) The primary audience of the Django template language is designers,
> not programmers. I doubt you will find many designers that will
> consider "->" a familiar syntax.
>
> 2) The biggest part of being "easy to remember and recognize" isn't
> being unique - it's being idiomatic. "->" is a C++ idiom. It isn't
> even close to being Python idiom. Since Python is where the Django
> template language draws most of its inspiration, choosing C++ as a
> source of inspiration doesn't make much sense here.
>
> 3) Even if you do accept programmer familiarity with C++ as a source
> of inspiration, the analogy doesn't follow. "->" is a C++ syntactic
> device for dealing with members of instances stored as a pointer.
> Django templates don't have pointers, so any pre-existing C++
> knowledge won't help you understand what "->" means in Django - if
> anything, it will hinder understanding, because it has the potential
> to set people looking for the pointer definitions in a Django
> template.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
>
>
>
> >
>
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