Re: [Freemarker-devel] Ideal tag syntax; what's your take on it?

Hi Daniel.

Daniel Dekany wrote:
> Friday, June 10, 2011, 1:49:13 PM, Daniel Henrique Alves Lima wrote:
>
> [snip]
>   
>>>   [#foo :]
>>>     ...
>>>   [#.]
>>>
>>>   or [#. foo], optionally.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> How about
>>
>> #foo [aaaaaaa
>> aaaaa#if condition [aaaaa
>> aaaa
>> ]aaaa
>> ]aaaa
>>
>> Or perhaps as cryptic as Velocity (sometimes).
>>     
>
> You are marching towards the WebMacro-ish syntax here. My main problem
> with them is that "]" (or "}", the more usual choice) isn't very much
> visible in the middle of the static text. Where that's not a problem,
> WebMacro-ish syntaxes rock though (and here see my comment regarding
> multiple syntaxes). The fact that a mere "]" has special meaning also
> complicates matters. In WebMacro (where it was "}", not "]") it did
> cause headaches. That problem can be handled well if you do allow "]"
> in static text as far as it has a "[" pair in static text, in which
> case the parser understands that the "[" and "]" are just static text.
>   

   Ok.

  I didn't know WebMacro.


> Of course it raises the need for vertical-flow-statements (my term for
> it...) like:
>
>   #vIf condition [
>     [ <- static, not printed if condition is flase
>       #vEndIf [
>         static, always printed
>       ]
>     ] <- static, not printed if condition is flase
>   ]
>
> but those are handy even if you have no syntactical problems, so
> that's not a problem in itself.
>
>   

I'm afraid I couldn't understand the example :-(
Is everything inside of #vIf condition [] static text? Or everything 
inside of #vIf condition [[]]?

#vIf condition {static content
    [static 
      #vEndIf [static
        static, always printed
      ]static
    ]static
}


or

#vIf condition [static content
    {static 
      #vEndIf {static
        static, always printed
      }static
    }static
]






#vIf condition [static content
static content
   #vIf otherCondition [static content
   ]static content
] #vElse [static
]



I do like the fact that FreeMarker allows [#ftl] or <#ftl>


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