On Thursday 27 May 2010 13:33:10 Tom Evans wrote: > I never claimed it wasn't; it was stipulated that Django's template > system wipes the floor with all others, and it is inconceivable to > think more favourably of a different system.
I never said that Django wipes the floor with "all others" - I was speaking specifically of PHP. And, even then, I said that it wiped the floor with it "in so many ways", not every way - of course there are ways in which, in certain situations, PHP provides certain conveniences that you might want. I was saying that, giving these very significant advantages of Django's template system, I was very surprised to hear someone come to the overall conclusion "PHP has us beat". In many cases, I think even the perceived advantages of PHP are things we don't even want to copy, because of our deliberate design decisions (e.g. to make templates designer friendly). But if there are some real advantages of PHP over Django's templates, or some significant pain points, then of course we're interested to know. BTW, to reply to your other message, you can set variables in a limited form: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#with Thanks, Luke -- "Oh, look. I appear to be lying at the bottom of a very deep, dark hole. That seems a familiar concept. What does it remind me of? Ah, I remember. Life." (Marvin the paranoid android) Luke Plant || http://lukeplant.me.uk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
