<% eval { qq{target="$bar->{url_target}"} if $bar->{url_target} } %>
Which works. If you'll go take a look in your masondata folder at the file that contains that code after it's compiled, you'll see:
$m->print ( eval { qq{target="$bar->{url_target}"} if $bar->{url_target} } );
That does work. Not quite what you're looking for and even more verbose than my beloved tertiary operator, but you had inspired my curiosity regarding why the substitution block was so limited in it's accepted syntax. I had always just assumed that it was some kind of nonsensical eval error, but after looking at the mason-compiled object file and seeing that it's just passing the whole sting into $m->print(), I understand completely.
Why is it that you don't like the cute tertiary syntax? I love the question-mark/colon syntax. I think it looks really nice in certain places in the code. It gives you the syntactical power to make conditional statements very easy to read through. What and why do you have a grudge against it?
Hope I was able to help. Let me know if anything else breaks... :D
-Eric
http://pirate-js.sourceforge.net
On 7/31/06,
Mason List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to be able to avoid writing code like this:
<% $bar->{url_target} qq{target="$bar->{url_target}"} : '' %>
and instead:
<% qq{target="$bar->{url_target}"} if $bar->{url_target} %>
though as I write this email I see I'm not saving much typing...
Anyway, what do people do?
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