I haven't been following along too closely so I'm not sure if this
will help but I've had luck with doing things similar to the
following:
<% $bar->{url_target} and qq{target="$bar->{url_target}"} %>
I'm not sure if this will work in your situation however.
-b
On 7/31/06, Eric Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Due to the fact that the substitution block is pulled out of your code with
> a sweet RegExp and then passed to $m->print(), there's really nothing you
> can do to achieve your exact request. The closest thing I could come up with
> ( and I hope you appreciate this because it took me about 2 hours of
> rummaging through Lexer.pm and Compiler.pm and Interp.pm before finally
> figuring out this solution ) is this:
>
> <% eval { qq{target="$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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