I'm also a little worried about people taking it too far... someone
recently posted a message about %#{tag_name}= ..., and I think allowing
#{} to be ubiquitous within text would do more to encourage that.
Chris Eppstein wrote:
> Yes, if you change your double quotes to single quotes.
>
> But \#{h @user.name} is more straight forward and already supported in
> == mode.
>
> Btw, I'm still +1 on this despite the need to occasionally escape.
> Unfortunately, the fact that escaping is necessary means that it is
> not a backwards compatible change.
>
> chris
>
> On Sep 30, 5:13 pm, Lawrence Pit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> An example interpolation is #{h @user.name}
>>
>> could be escaped as:
>>
>> An example interpolation is #{ "#{h @user.name}" }
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>>
>>> It should be noted that doing so would create a need for escaping the
>>> #{ sequence if it occurs naturally in text.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Sep 30, 4:45 pm, Lawrence Pit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's how I do it as well... I rarely use the == syntax. Only in cases
>>>> like these:
>>>>
>>>> == Hello #{h @user.name},
>>>>
>>>> which is nicer compared to:
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>> = succeed ',' do
>>>> = h @user.name
>>>>
>>>> But of course simply this is even nicer:
>>>>
>>>> Hello #{h @user.name},
>>>>
>>>> As indeed is already possible when defined within a filter block.
>>>>
>>>> I vote +1 on the proposal.
>>>>
>>>> Lawrence
>>>>
>>>>> While I don't find anything conceptually wrong and would even +1 this
>>>>> because there's times it would be convenient, I simply do this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gist.github.com/13840
>>>>>
>>>>> -chris
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 30, 6:16 am, Jacques Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the process of bombarding the world with open source haml rails
>>>>>> apps (see here, here, here), I've definitely noticed a few small
>>>>>> things haml could do to increase the readability of haml view code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The most important one that I would like to suggest is some kind of
>>>>>> universal interpolation of #{} without the requirement of beginning
>>>>>> the line with ==. I've been using == so much lately that its starting
>>>>>> to look pretty ugly. Seems like it would help a lot if that it was the
>>>>>> standard. So my question to haml users is: what would be the speed and
>>>>>> functionality implications of allowing #{} to be used anywhere without
>>>>>> the requirement of ==?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a quick code example:http://gist.github.com/13805
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I imagine automatically treating every static content line as if it
>>>>>> were a == would make haml an order of magnitude slower. The trick
>>>>>> would be to specifically recognize the existence of #{} in content
>>>>>> blocks (hopefully via a super fast content eval) and automatically
>>>>>> turn the evaluation of that line to ==.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I spent a little time looking at the the haml codebase to verify my
>>>>>> findings but things haven't clicked for me yet. Would love any
>>>>>> feedback from someone who has a better handle on the parser on whether
>>>>>> this is possible without a huge problem in performance. Aside from the
>>>>>> implementation details, is there anyone who would object functionality-
>>>>>> wise to being able to use #{} anywhere in normal content blocks? Since
>>>>>> #{} is a rarely used html token I don't think it would conflict with
>>>>>> peoples existing view code. And since this type of automatic
>>>>>> interpolation is already done by default within Filters, it seems a
>>>>>> natural extension to use it in normal content blocks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would love feedback on anything regarding the idea or implementation
>>>>>> challenges. Maybe I'm way off base here, but if it sounds like
>>>>>> something that had a remote chance to be added to haml core, I can do
>>>>>> some hacking on a fork and see how it goes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Jacques
>>>>>> railsjedi.com
>>>>>>
>>
> >
>
>
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