Re: [Webmacro-devel] Whitespace :(

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Marc Palmer wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:40:58 -0400 (GMT), Keats <ke...@su...> wrote:
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>> St
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> Would produce a superfluous blank line. I know WE know var expansion 
> and directives are completely different, but to the average user why 
> should whitespace handling be any different. 

Because they are different animals and therefore the text jock is 
trained use each differently. We have a page to document the behavior. 
Token handling and white space consumption and emission are terrifically 
hard to do the way any one person would like it. And, done one way, it 
really pisses off the next person who wants it another way. And, the 10 
others who want it 10 different ways.

There is no one way to get it right because everyone has a different 
take on indents, line consumption, etc.

I realize marc that this is really irritating and I have scanned your 
email on this subject. Is this a show-stopper for you?

-Lane

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>> If you want a bunch of stuff without newlines you can write:
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> [snip]
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>> to get
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>> [10, (20), 50, (100)]
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>> Writing this all on one line would really suck.
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> Perhaps...
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>> (Note: I haven't tested this example, but it's something like that.)
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> This is exactly my point though! It should be obvious from the 
> template what the output should be. It definitely isn't, unless you 
> are ready to meticulously apply the WS rules.
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> At least if #xxx expands exactly where the "#" is, and you write it on 
> one line, you know you will get ONE line. :)
>

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