RE: [Mason] Spaces before the % tag

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, John Williams wrote:

> Just to add my opinion,  I would love to see Mason follow the same
> format used my ASP and JSP, that is:
>
> <% perl code %> and <%= expression %>

This has been talked about.  I think Jon said he'd eventually like to move
to something like this in the future.  You might want to check the
archives.

> Since that syntax is not compatible with existing Mason syntax, I think
> we would need a parameter to HTML::Mason::Parser::new in order to enable
> it.

The syntax change will not happen for a while now.  In the meantime the
parser has already been re-architected into a lexer/compiler (for the 1.1
branch).  This means that you'd just use a different lexer to switch
syntaces.


-dave

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