On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:06 PM, h3 <hainea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you'd like to make an argument as to *why* it's useful, that's > useful, but we don't take polls. > > I think the argument as to why it's useful as been made quite > extensively. > > On the flip side, beside the ivory tower philosophical stance, I did > not see much > compelling argument as to *why* this is a bad idea. > > Django is nothing other than ivory tower philosophies (and I really hate this "ivory tower" insult, as if it's a bad thing to be principled and philosophically sound) applied to APIs. If it violates the philosophy, it shouldn't go into an API.
> If you think it makes your templates look ugly, well just don't use > it. You'd still have the choice. > > No. If it's an API, it doesn't need to be used by me in order to poison my experience with Django. > Meanwhile some other people think it would make their templates more > readable, but > unfortunately they don't have the luxury to choose because an > architect think it's ugly. > > At this point I think it's worth mentioning that it's a not a beauty > contest. And even if it was, > I don't see the beauty in lines of code that are 10 feet long. > > In another thread someone had an example of a multi-line tag, and I actually commented to my computer on how ugly I found it. Beauty may be in the eyes of the beholder, but the reason we have BDFLs is to keep those decisions consistent. Glyph Lefkowitz's keynote from DjangoCon this year really drives this home. > > On Feb 24, 10:15 am, Daniel Moisset <dmois...@machinalis.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Folks, you seem to have missed Russell's point. Even if 100 people +1 > this, > > > it's meaningless. That's a tiny fraction of this mailing list's > readership, > > > much less of the Django community at large. Django is the way it is > > > because, first and foremost, of taste. If you'd like to make an > argument as > > > to *why* it's useful, that's useful, but we don't take polls. > > > > It's useful because it helps some templaets in some cases be more > readable > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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. > > Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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.
