Re: Patch and test to allow component calls

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> So how about this: If a <&| &> tag contains a literal string as defined
> above, then you can use either </&> or </& LITERAL>, where LITERAL is
> the exact literal they specified. Otherwise, they can only use </&>.
> This is mostly as John suggested, except that we don't let them use </&>
> for expressions.
>
> I'm assuming that literals are vastly more common than expressions in
> <&| &> tags, so this should give Alex what he wants in most cases.
> Except that he won't be able to stick long diary entries in his </&> tag.
>
> What do you think?

The code that determines if something is a literal is not the parsing
code, so implementing this would require some extra talking back and forth
between lexer & compiler, which doesn't seem like a good design.


-dave

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