Hi
I've been slogging through the JSP specs and the JSP book (not too
shabby!), and I think I'm starting to learn a thing or two.
Officially, <% is for scriptlets, <%= is for expressions, right? Well,
unless I'm mistaken, all <%= is, is a shortcut to save you from typing
out.println(). But as far as I can tell you never need <%= at all.
This would mean that it's not really as if the conceptual space of JSP
contains two concepts (among others), 'scriptlets' and 'expressions'.
There's only scriptlets. Since I hate jargon I try and keep my little
dictionary of new terms (or worse - old terms used in new ways) to a
minimum, so I wanna know. Also, as a Java guy rather than an HTML guy,
I'm more comforatble with
<% out.println(dt.getHours() + ":" + dt.getMinutes() + ":" +
dt.getSeconds()); %>
than
<%=dt.getHours()%>:<%=dt.getMinutes()%>:<%=dt.getSeconds()%>
(if nothing else it's faster to spot errors in the first for me, cause
I've got The Eye) so I'd like to maybe just stick to <% if I can.
So I guess my question is - is <%= truly just a shortcutty kind of
thing? Or is there more to it than that - do I actually need it
sometimes.
Thanks,
Chris
===========================================================================
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
