So, first off. I think this is a pretty decent syntax.
But, mostly, I'm worried about walking down the road of supporting inline
formatting. It feels like this syntax breaks a couple of the core mental
conventions of Haml (one line, one line)... and loses the focus on "Haml is
for structure" which has been a guiding principle since the beginning.
To put it this way, this is a workably syntax, but it adds complexity and
doesn't solve for every case of inline formatting. And, I'm concerned that
walking down that line is getting into the territory of the two primary
inline formatting languages. Both of those are *more* complex than Haml
because the *problem* is complicated. This syntax doesn't solve their
problem but would be an admission that we are *trying* to solve that problem
with Haml.
I want more input though. So please, argue back.
-hampton.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Hendrik Mans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I love HAML. But yesterday I had one of "those" moments where, after
> an ugly amount of succeed "!" do / = "#{whatever}!" / == #{whataver}!
> hackery, I was a bit too close to reverting to ERB. Luckily, Nathan
> spotted my whining on Twitter and quickly helped restore my
> faith. ;-) Being able to use #{} style variable substitution
> within :markdown etc. helpers really helps a lot.
>
> During that little episode I also had an idea for a new HAML syntax
> that might help improve the situation even more. Check it out:
>
> http://pastie.caboo.se/183851
>
> Basically, the idea is to introduce parentheses (or some other kind of
> delimiter) to wrap the expression that's intended to be contained in
> the parent tag, with everything following the parentheses being
> outside the tag. I haven't had a look at how HAML works yet, but I
> imagine it might not be too hard to implement -- might give it a try
> at some point (unless one of you is faster).
>
> I believe it should work fine with all existing denominators,
> including ==, without breaking backwards compatibility.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> - Hendrik
>
> >
>
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