From: jonty <jontyjont@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T07:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz-5.0.0

I have been using haml out of necessity recently (sinatra), erb is too 
much like hard work.
I find that haml is deeply frustrating as getting the whitespace right 
to nest things properly is, quite frankly, a pain.
Markaby used the right sort of syntax I think and therefore I am 
mightily intrigued by Tagz.

Is it fast??

Thankyou Ara - I will try it our tomorrow.

Brian Candler wrote:
> Ara Howard wrote:
>   
>> you mean combining erb with the dsl i assume?
>>     
>
> At a lower level, the use of hashes to represent attributes is 
> strikingly similar. e.g.
>
>     a_(:href => "/foo"){ "bar" }
>
> compared to HAML:
>
>     %a{:href => "/foo"} bar
> or
>     %a{:href => "/foo"}= "bar"
>
> HAML lets you put any Ruby expression inside %a{...} which returns a 
> hash. Of course, tagz is real Ruby code, whereas HAML is its own 
> language.
>
> The other thing which struck me was your use of nesting to build tables. 
> HAML really excels here, and the indentation-driven syntax means you 
> don't have to balance the closing parts. Somehow I find this more 
> natural for web page templates than for code.
>
>   
>> i've used this
>>
>>      def unindent! s
>>     
>
> Yes, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of. HAML like this would 
> still need to go via a compilation phase each time it is executed, 
> whereas tagz is just run. Hence the benefit to keeping HAML snippets 
> separate and cached.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>   
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