More or less. We're willing to deprecate and eventually remove functionality if the need is clear enough, but I don't think this is that clear.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Dr Nic Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > There is an old saying in software "if a bug exists for 12 months and no > one notices, then it becomes a feature". > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The main problem with doing anything like this is that it's backwards >> incompatible. Since it's a reasonably small issue, it's easy to work around >> and we don't want to introduce new syntax for it, there really isn't much >> choice but to leave it as it is, regardless of what the right behavior is. >> I don't remember exactly what went into making the decision to do it the >> way we do now; it would definitely be a performance hit to do it the other >> way, and there are certainly reasons to think that it would be more >> surprising, given that every other value is converted with to_s. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Katherine Giron Pe < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Norman Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> At least in my implementation of Haml in Lua, the precompiler would >>>> have to wrap each script tag in a conditional to be evaluated by the >>>> renderer, and output nothing if the content is nil. In other words, >>>> doable but a pain in the butt for what IMHO is potentially confusing >>>> functionality. >>>> >>>> Also the way Haml is now, if you don't want the tag you can just add a >>>> conditional. The feature that's being described would leave you with >>>> no way to always get the tag if that's what you want, unless a config >>>> option is added. >>>> >>>> I think you guys made the right choice. >>>> >>> >>> Agree. Separation of concerns. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ----- >>> BridgeUtopia Web >>> http://blog.bridgeutopiaweb.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Dr Nic Williams > iPhone and Rails consultants - http://mocra.com > Fun with iPhone/Ruby/Rails/Javascript - http://drnicwilliams.com > * Surf Report for iPhone - http://mocra.com/projects/surfreport/ * > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
