Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 5:53:54 PM, Jason Pettiss wrote:
> Aaah, I get it. That's a serious performance hit but at least it'll get
> me up and running so I can make milestone... a good tip. Thank you.
> Then later I'll just go back and replace $ and # with \ or whatever the
> escape is, so things are fast again.
>
> So what's the history behind the broken escape mechanism? It's not
> really an escape mechanism if it can't escape itself, after all. I mean
> the problem is, \$foo should always always always output $foo. Because
> there is no way of knowing at template time what's in the context and so
> there's no way of knowing if random backslashes are going to creep up.
[snip]
Yeah, I have debated in a long thread about that earlier. I dare to
state that it is, as a matter if fact... amm... so, let me call it what
it is: plain stupid design. And most probably it will not be fixed,
since that would be not backward compatible, of course. So don't waste
your time thinking about it, just live with ${D} and ${H}. Who cares
after all... this minor speed loss barely does mater.
--
Best regards,
Daniel Dekany
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