Re: [Webware-discuss] RE: PSP Problem -- Well .. ne`er mind

[Dave W. <dwa...@ud...>]

Jay Love wrote:

> So your code would look like this:
> -------------------------------------------
>
> <%@ page method="writeHTML" %>
>
> PSP Test
>
> <% q=0 %>
> <%
> if q:
>         self.writeln("We have Q")
> else:
>         for i in range(10):$%>
> Sorry! No Q !!!
> <% end %>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> How does that strike you?

About like putting a round peg in a square hole. It "fits", it works, but
there is still, to me, a basic problem here. Aside from the question of
exactly which block did I end with "<% end %>", the "$" has a really krufty
un-pythonic feel. I realize that perhaps this is a necessary evil in this
scheme but when I sit down to code a PSP page I feel like I am catering too
much to the language instead of it to me. I am currently a JSP coder so
maybe I'm the square peg myself but when I create a JSP or look at one
created by one of my co-workers, all I have are <% %> and <%= %>  and
blocks made with braces. I would be very afraid to work with others on a
PSP-based project where tabs and spaces and significant and insignificant
indentation would all mix together into a morass of confusion. I'm not so
sure I'm smart enough to keep them straight just by myself.

I realize this is just a load of subjectivity, and I'm not really offering
much in the way of a solution, but I feel that this sort of thing will be a
barrier to the widespread adoption that will be require to perpetuate
Webware. Webware as a whole is looking up as an excellent product, but it
needs a good HTML display solution.  Ok it has an excellent one in PSP, but
it just needs to go that extra kilometer.

Ok, I will offer a potential solution: { } . They really could work.

Dave.


>
>
> Can I indent my nested "for: loop
> > somehow? (Of course, the argument could be made that PSP pages are for
> > display and shouldn't have a lot of nested blocks and that complex
> > code
> > should be moved to a Can or Servlet.)
>
> I'm the one who will make that argument (for a Can or Servlet).  BUt the
> blocks are so common and necessary that they are a special case.  I
> think the solution above will work well.
>
> Jay