Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>
> At 01:57 PM 4/30/2001 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> >Then I guess they would like to see pointy things '<' and '>'
> >
> >:)
>
> They're also familiar with English (which uses parentheses) and some basic
> math, like (3+5)*8. So ()s for grouping comes naturally.
It's not really a 'grouping of characters' operation as much as a
'delineation of reference boundary'.
>
> They don't want <> in a templating language because then they can't see the
> templating instructions when they view templates in a browser.
Yep. I was being facetious :)
> We do use $ and # which comes out of nowhere, but hey, you gotta use
> something...
>
> >I guess you'd use whitespace to delimit things in a python inspired
> >template engine?
>
> Only the implementation is Python-inspired. The syntax of the templating
> language is designed to be the best it can be (ahem, looks real close to
> WM/Velocity) and the target audience includes non-programmers.
Was kidding again :)
> For mixing Python and HTML, we already have a PSP package (Python Server
> Pages). However, many of us prefer to use Python to create servlets (we
> have that too) and use templates to present.
Yep - and if you look back a bit on the list, someone talked about
making their servlets in Python and using Vel
> I'm sure you all can relate. :)
>
> >I thought you would be able to access vel from python already... isn't
> >there some gateway?
>
> Probably Jython or some such, but our project offers everything in pure
> Python, which also gives us increased control, potentially better
> performance (no bridges) and easier integration of our packages into other
> Python solutions.
>
> Link is in the .sig if you wanna look around.
Thanks. Will do.
> -Chuck
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