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• Just right (Score:2)

  by Juerd (1796)

  It may not be pretty, but it does make reading the code much easier.
  
  }) %]"> enables the reader to extract information that the single-delimiter style ))))) cannot provide. I think that ))))) is prettier, but less practical.
  
  } is the end of a hash
  ) is probably the end of a function call
  %] is the end of a TT directive
  " is the end of text; the following > tells us it's an SGML-ish attribute value
  > is the end of an SGML-ish tag
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    I think that ))))) is prettier, but less practical.

    Funny you say that, ‘cause I was just thinking the same about sigils today. Yeah sure, they’re noisy and can gunk up the code – also, they’re extra red tape that needs to be typed over and over. But they make it so much easier to scan the code! Consider something like this:

    10 * $bar * log( $foo + 2 + cos( $baz ) )

    You can immediately tell apart the “slots” where variable values go, the static pieces, and the funct
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Juerd (1796)

      I had that side-by-side experience when changing the javascript on http://speedtest.aoeu.nl/ [speedtest.aoeu.nl] to a more perl-like style. Another huge advantage of sigils is that you can use variable interpolation - that's the rare occasion where sigils are prettier than the alternative, lots of concatenated string literals.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      I happen to think convenience is pretty.

      --
      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
• Maybe just right with a possible tweak (Score:1)

  by ferreira (5993)

  It may be just right. Mainly because not having so many delimiters could be worse: requiring the need for hard-to-read escaping.

  On another note, maybe one of the delimiters of the mentioned template piece could disappear, by writing something like:

  a href=[% uri_for('add_size', {product_id => product.id}) | qq %]>Add new size</a>

  where the qq filter would add the leading and trailing quotes and would take care of any necessary entity-escaping. It hardly contributes to the original inte
• More ways to do it (Score:1)

  by Phred (5358)

  There's more than five ways to do it :)
• As an aside (Score:1)

  by grink (8549)

  I like to use a helper function href() , which is a wrapper to c.uri_for, to generate that sort of thing (since it's so common)
  
  <a [% href(...) %]>Lorem ipsum</a>
• when I look at the stack... (Score:1)

  by grendelan (8550)

  when I look at the J2EE stack, or the LAMP stack, or any of the other "web based" shite, I long for the elegance of native GUIs..... NeXTStep in particular. I wonder if us engineers will ever be able to steal things back from the marketing droids.
• Quoting specifically, not just delimiting (Score:1)

  by Crag (6470)

  Those are all quoting characters. Additional delimiters in that string are whitespace, comma, equals sign, => and a period for a total of eleven delimiters.

  But quoting in particular is more interesting than delimiting in general. Hofstadter wrote a great book about it. Maybe you've heard of it. :)

  Using different quoting syntax for different contexts makes perfect sense to me. Here's what your example would have looked like in a fake-lisp syntax I'm making up right now:

  (a (href (uri_for "add_siz