[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-12-01 Thread David Pollak
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Alex Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't this similar to Option.mapOrElse that you opposed on the scala > mailing list? :) In fact it is. :-) Polluting Scala is bad. Polluting Lift is less bad. > > > alex > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM, David Po

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-12-01 Thread Alex Boisvert
Isn't this similar to Option.mapOrElse that you opposed on the scala mailing list? :) alex On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM, David Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've added def dmap[B](dflt: => B)(f: A => B): B to Cans: > > S.param("foo").dmap(5)(toInt) > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:53 AM,

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-12-01 Thread David Pollak
I've added def dmap[B](dflt: => B)(f: A => B): B to Cans: S.param("foo").dmap(5)(toInt) On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Derek Chen-Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have to say, I love this "Can->map->openOr" idiom. I use it all of the > time in my code for parameter handling, etc. > > Derek

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-11-28 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
I have to say, I love this "Can->map->openOr" idiom. I use it all of the time in my code for parameter handling, etc. Derek On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Marius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yup ... or you can have > > val count = S.attr("count").map(_.toInt) openOr 5 > > Br's, > Marius > >

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-11-28 Thread Marius
Yup ... or you can have val count = S.attr("count").map(_.toInt) openOr 5 Br's, Marius On Nov 28, 2:15 pm, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, I cant belive I didnt know about that - thats pretty fricking > useful!! Presumably: > >     val count: Int = S.attr("count") match { >      

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Perrett
Wow, I cant belive I didnt know about that - thats pretty fricking useful!! Presumably: val count: Int = S.attr("count") match { case Full(item) => item.toInt case Empty => 5 } Is the normal idiom? Cheers Tim On Nov 27, 11:34 pm, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-11-27 Thread Tim Perrett
Hmm interesting! This I'm not familiar with - I'll give it a whirl tomorow. Cheers, Derek Sent from my iPhone On 27 Nov 2008, at 22:11, "Derek Chen-Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that S.attr could already be used to get the attributes on > a tag. Am I misunderstanding what

[Lift] Re: Alter presentation behavior with snippet markup

2008-11-27 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
I thought that S.attr could already be used to get the attributes on a tag. Am I misunderstanding what you're getting at? Derek On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, > > Im currently re-designing the whole bloglite publishing engine im > writing and o