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Re: [OFF] HTML template languages

In article <38DAA3B5.16222199@miqs.com>, Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com> wrote:

> IOW, what I think truly stinks is:
> 
> <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3>
>   <TR><TH COLSPAN=4 ALIGN=CENTER>
>     Pagers: <StupidScript printf ("%d", pager-list.count);> found
>   </TH></TR>
>   <TR>
>     <TH>Name</TH><TH>Dept</TH><TH>Phone</TH><TH>Pager</TH>
>   </TR>
>   <StupidScript
>     (ForEach pg in pager-list)
>     { 
>       printf ("<TR VALIGN=TOP>")
>       printf ("<TD>%s</TD><TD>%s</TD><TD>%s</TD>",
>               pg.Name, pg.Dept, pg.Phone);
>       printf ("<TD>");
>       if (pg.canPage)
>         printf ("<A HREF="editmsg.4ds?[PagerNum]=>");
>       printf (pg.Num);
>       if (pg.canPage)
>         printf ("</A>");
>       printf ("</TD>");
>       printf ("</TR>");
>     }
>   >
> </TABLE>

Does this stink less if everything before the "<StupidScript" tag is
actually a "print" with a "here document", or other multi-line string
constant?

Which is a pretty common approach in Perl.

-- Bruce
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