Re: [web-devel] Setting variables in hamlet forall

On Thursday, April 07, 2011 02:51:40 AM you wrote:

put me in the opposed category.

You can just as easily put: let formId rs = fromMaybe "" $ lookup $...

in the haskell function that loads the hamlet file t

You are missing the point. I cannot put anything inside haskell for a loop that is defined inside hamlet. Variable binding must happen inside forall loop, and variable is different for each iteration of the loop. It's just used in several places inside the loop block. There's no way to help it from the outside of the loop. That's why i am asking for binding only for $forall, because in all other cases we can indeed define all often used variables in haskell code.

hen you just have to put #{formId rs}

in the hamlet. I think adding syntax should be done only when very necessary. seems like a very small win here at a big cost.

yes, if you have a situation where many handlers are calling the same hamlet file, there might be some duplication, but then you can always raise the formId function to a top-level function.

max

On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

...

I've been very hesitant about adding more features to Hamlet, especially ones that are already implemented in Haskell. That's been my reasoning for avoiding any kind of variable definitions until now. However, this does seem like a compelling use case.

I don't think it would make sense to limit it to foralls: it makes as much sense in maybes, and I think it would be confusing if it only applied in some cases. As for syntax, how about:

$forall row <- rs

$let formId = fromMaybe "" $ IntMap.lookup $ getInt "form_id" row ...

I'm not 100% sold on this yet, what does everyone else think?

One last note: I'm probably going to be announcing a feature freeze on Yesod 0.8 *very* soon, and making a beta release to Yackage so that people can test. If you have any last-minute input, now's the time. I'm planning on giving the beta test period about a week, and then releasing to Hackage.

Michael

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:57 AM, wrote: I noticed a pattern that in hamlet $forall i often retrieve the same value from a map, Sometimes 3,4 times.

$forall row <- rs

<td>#{getStr "form_name"

row}

<td>#{getStr "docname" row} ... <td>#{fromMaybe "" (IntMap.lookup (getInt "form_id" row)

counties)}

<td>#{fromMaybe "" (IntMap.lookup (getInt "form_id" row)

customers)}

Would it be possible to allow let statement in forall for often used values ?

Regards, Vagif Verdi

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