I haven't seen this voiced on the list yet, so I don't know if anyone else shares my
concern. The addition of 'gt','le' and so on
seems a bit overkill for our little language. When I first learned the TT syntax and
found that it had '==' but not 'eq', I figured
this was a conscious design choice to keep the language simple. While TMTOWTDI is
great for Perl, I'd think that limiting the
number of 'ways to do it' would be more suitable to the TT language. Personally I
would like to see the operator synonyms
('gt','lt'....) re-removed from the TT syntax. I'm not not crying for the mantra of
"simplicity is elegance"...I do code Perl,
after all :) - I just want to see if the TT community can show some restraint on
growing the complexity of the TT language.
-Stephen
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig McLane
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 08:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perrin Harkins
Subject: Re: [Templates] TAGS and parsing
To chime in on this thread... I agree with Perrin that ">" is too simple
to be used as a closing delimiter, but if 'lt', 'gt', 'ge', and 'le' are
going to stay, I would like them to at the very least pay attention to the
CASE setting. We actually use 'le' as a variable name in a number of our
templates and 2.04d had some problems with that ;-)
Craig
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > One possible concern: lt, gt, ge, and le are now reserved words, so
> > 2.04d will break old code that uses these as variable or member names.
>
> That's a good point.
>
> > Another workaround to the original problem would be to use this:
> >
> > <DO while 1 < Level >
> > or
> > <DO while (1 < Level) >
>
> I think the real answe is that ">" is too simple to be used as a closing
> delimiter. ePerl had this same problem, and they had to change to a 2
> character delimiter to make parsing reasonable.
> - Perrin
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