Re: a) or b)

[Stefan `Sec` Zehl <nospam@thanx>]

On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 05:51:22PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Sec,
> 
> The problem is not <ifeq in particular ... this thing with having
> <else> is certainly a good idea for this problem, but we have to
> find a general sollution to the tag nesting problem and the fact
> that we have a mixed bag of known and unknown tags ... completely
> aside of the <ifeq problem ...

Okay, I was maybe too specific.

I think a) is better. It's clean, easy to understand and
straightforward. I don't think <> should 'quote' spaces.

I agree that this is ugly with the current ifeq syntax. So I think it's
time to change the ifeq syntax :)

> Regarding Denis question, I think solution b) is a good. Especially
> if you think about the case where you think about first working
> with normal html tags and then gradually replacing them with WML
> defined tags. In case a) this would mean to rewrite all the pages
> where you have been using the non defined tag because its parsing
> is suddenly changed around ... 

The parsing doesn't "change around" spaces are delimiters, and they
should be imho :)

CU,
    Sec
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