[web-devel] Interpolation character in Julius

[Michael Snoyman]

It's definitely on Hackage right now. I *think* it started with 0.6,
though it might have made it into 0.5.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Max Cantor <mxcantor at gmail.com> wrote:
> is that only with the new syntax thats on github or with julius thats on hackage?  In other words, as of which version of hamlet?
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> Thanks, max
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> On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
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>> Yes, we use the percent sign now.
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>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Max Cantor <mxcantor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did you ever make a decision about this?  Will the new hamlet syntax affect this?
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>>> Max
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>>> On Aug 24, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
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>>>> Hamlet, Cassius and (currently) Julius all use a consistent set of characters for interpolation. The dollar sign ($) is for plain scalars, the at sign (@) is for URLs and the caret (^) is for embedding other templates (mixins in the case of Cassius). I like this consistency.
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>>>> Unfortunately, in the case of Julius, the dollar sign is a suboptimal character to use since jQuery uses is so extensively. Currently, to write some simple jQuery Javascript such as:
>>>>
>>>> $("h1").hide()
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>>>> you have to use a double dollar sign to achieve escaping, namely:
>>>>
>>>> $$("h1").hide()
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>>>> So the questions to the list are:
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>>>> * Is it worth trading consistency for a better choice of interpolation character?
>>>> * If so, what would be a more optimal interpolation character? I think percent sign (%) might be acceptable.
>>>>
>>>> Interpolation is not as important in Julius as it is in Hamlet, so I'm beginning to lean towards replacing the character.
>>>>
>>>> Michael
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