> But, I'd personally take a *few* ugly
> inline instances in trade for clear and usable structure definitions.
I don't see this as a either/or problem. Ugliness must be rooted out.
The inline capabilities of Haml are sadly lacking, and it's forced me
to write some pretty ugly constructs. Not unlike Nathan's example:
%p
I went to the
- succeed ',' do
= shops
so crossed the road
I mean, come on. That's ugly. It's not Nathan's fault; there's just
no elegant way to do this in Haml. I've been forced to perform
similar view vandalism in much the same vein. And it hurts me. Haml
is about beauty. (Haml is also about structure. I contend that ugly
hanging constructs that are begging to be compacted make it difficult
to read and work with the structure).
Why not interpret #{} embedding tags anywhere in non-evaling lines,
much in the same way that ERb allows <%= %>?
I understand that scanning each line of the template looking for
embedded code will result in a performance hit, but I say 'meh'. I'd
rather have a speed decrease I'd never notice than ugly templates I
have to look at every day. (Besides. I've never found Haml to be
slow. Ever. Even in its pre-release days, before compilation support
was added. If your app is slow, Haml's render time is hardly the
bottleneck).
So, anyways, am I the only one who thinks the following looks much
better?
%p I went to the #{shops}, so crossed the road.
%blockquote
I think that #{features[:inline_embedding]} would be a fabulous
idea that would surely bring about world peace. Please read my
crappy #{link_to 'blog', 'http://example.com'}, friend.
/Jeff
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