From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-04-06T00:29:51+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz and entities


On Apr 3, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Thanks. That seems a bit arbitrary since these methods are the same  
> for strings. It's something you just have to remember, but then  
> forget when you come back to the code after a while.
>

yeah i can see that.  i was thinking more of erb's concat - which  
appends literal objects.


> Would it be possible for the object returned by #tagz to have a  
> method, say #literally or #unescaped, which returns an object which  
> delegates back to the original. On the original Tagz::Document, #<<  
> and #concat have the same quoting behavior. On the delegator, they  
> do not quote.
>

that is kinds of how it works already.

       def << string
         case string
           when Document
             super string.to_s
           else
             super XChar.escape(string.to_s)
         end
         self
       end


and anything returned by tagz *is* a document.  you can even do

tagz << tagz('<blink> not escaped </blink>')


maybe i'll just reserver #write of unescaped writing - there needs to  
be one shortcut i think.

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