From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T03:35:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we have these two added to ERb?

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Quoth SpringFlowers AutumnMoon:
> I like Ruby tremendously...
>=20
> and currently having some headache with the "$" and ";" in PHP, like
>=20
> $i =3D $j;
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> in every single line, vs Ruby's simplicity
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> i =3D j
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> maybe the $i is so that outputting the variable is easy in
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> print "the value is $i"
> in ERb, we need to write
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> "the value is #{i}"
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> and it is a bit more typing.  can we have something like
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> "the value is ##i"  as a shorthand? and use #{ } when it involves more
> complicated expressions?
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> The other thing is that in PHP, they use "print" and "echo" to output
> the HTML code.  In Ruby, we always use <%=3D  evaluated_value  %>  and it
> might have a limit of always breaking up the code into  <%  %>  and <%=3D
> %> and <% %>
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> <% results.each do |k,v| %>
> <%=3D "#{k}  #{v}" %>
> <% end %>
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> the people who like to use inject may be happy because they can have it
> all in one line  <%=3D results.inject {|k,v| k +=3D ... %>
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> but if we can have some way that the STDOUT is made into HTML code, like
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> <%p  results.each {|k,v| printf "...  " %>
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> or
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> <%p
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>      code
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> %>
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> then it can give us some ease when templating.

PHP has <?=3D $var ?> shorthand as well.

=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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