The % was chosen because I wanted to be able to have plain tetxt lines
%title content title content Tags are explicit instead of implicit. And, I wanted to be able to keep it more freeform. Percent was chosen particularily because its SHIFT-5 which isn't too hard to hit. -hampton. On 8/19/07, jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to HAML and a big fan of it so far. Converted my rails app to > HAML in about 2 hours and am really happy with the look of it. > However, I searched the group to find any discussion on what the > reasoning for using the % symbol for defining elements. I don't mind > it, but it seems to be that there's a much cleaner and obvious way to > formatting HAML. > > Using the wikipedia example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haml > > Why not format it as the following? > > !!! > html{ :xmlns => "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";, :lang => "en", > 'xml:lang' => "en" } > head > title BoBlog > meta{ 'http-equiv' => 'Content-Type', :content => 'text/html; > charset=utf-8' }/ > = stylesheet_link_tag 'main' > body > #header > h1 BoBlog > h2 Bob's Blog > #content > - @entries.each do |entry| > .entry > h3.title= entry.title > p.date= entry.posted.strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y") > p.body= entry.body > #footer > p > All content copyright (c) Bob > > Is that harder to parse? Is it more of an implementation or a style > issue? > > I know this has probably been discussed before, but I'm just curious. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
