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From: Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>

Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [web-devel] proposal for hamlet-like syntax that is more
compatible with html

To: Greg Weber <greg@gregweber.info>

I'm actually thinking that a good first step on this proposal is
simply adding the <> syntax in addition to what we already have. For
example:

%foo!bar=baz This is something

is equivalent to

<foo bar=baz> This is something

Without introducing any other changes. I originally did not like the
idea of "two hamlets", but I'm beginning to warm up to it as an
intermediate step. I'd even consider leaving both of them in there
indefinitely, though I'm not sure that's the best idea.

I very much would *not* like to implement a proposal such as % and
whitespace attributes, eg:

%foo bar=baz&This is something

I don't like this for two reasons:

1) It's almost, but not quite, what we have right now. I'd much rather
do a *big* change over to <> so that it's obvious that a change has
occurred.
2) I don't want to start gobbling up more symbols.

I also am not really interested in using the percent sign for variable
interpolation in Hamlet/Cassius: dollar sign is well established for
this in many languages, and I only grudgingly used the percent sign in
Julius because of jQuery.

If I'm not mistaken Greg, this means the part of your proposal which
is being excluded by this proposal would be multi-line tags, is that
correct?

Michael