Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Re: Incorrect newline counters

[email protected] (Bharat Mediratta)
Newsgroups php.smarty.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greg Stark wrote:
> messju mohr <[email protected]> writes:
> >I just wanted to say that hardly anybody seems to care about the fact
> >that line-numbers in source templates don't correspond to line-numbers
> >in compiled templates. 
> 
> Really? I suspect if you ask your users you'll find a lot of griping about
> this. It's really a headache that virtually any typo in a smarty template
> produces an error that can only be debugged by opening up an unreadable
> compiled template to figure out where the error actually happened.

Just to offer a counterpoint, I rarely care about correspondance between 
line numbers in Smarty templates and the resulting PHP files.  Yes, it 
would be convenient but there have only been very rare occasions where I 
had to dig into the generated PHP to understand a problem.  Many Smarty 
issues are caught during the compile phase, and it will tell me the 
exact line in the template where the failure is.  I very rarely have 
problems beyond that.  Most of my Smarty work has been on a single 
application which is about 13.5K lines of .tpl files.

-Bharat
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