Re: [PHP Template] Repeating values

At 04:09 PM 2/29/00 -0800, J. M. Castagnetto wrote:
>>	red,  small
>>	blue, medium
>>	blue, large,
>>	blue, x-large
>
>This may be confusing, because if the user expects that missing values will 
>be covered by the "default=" attribute, then this behaviour will be 
>counterintuitive.

Yes, I agree.

>Just for pure speculation, one can also set up things so instead of a simple 
>one to one correspondence between the lists, there is a combinatirial 
>relation:
>
>red small
>red medium
>red large
>red x-large
>blue small
>blue medium
>blue large
>blue x-large
>
>Now that may be interesting.

Hmm, I don't know how useful that'd be and the syntax would probably suck. :)

The problem is, if a variable has a single value you'd usually want to just
repeat it for each section iteration. If a variable is an array, then you'd
probably want to pad it with default value. Different behaviors.


-Andrei