[Ur] Hamlet like XML, structured by indentation with tag autoclosing

[Sergey Mironov]

I'll vote for traditional XML too. Web development is not only
programmers business.The overburdened syntax is a weak point of many
Haskell libraries. Remember pig operator <^(++)^> from
http://contemplatecode.blogspot.ru/2013/07/haskell-weekly-news-issue-273.html
:))


Regards,
Sergey

2015-06-17 20:59 GMT+03:00 Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu>:
> On 06/17/2015 01:37 PM, Gabriel Riba wrote:
>>
>> I have worked out the feasibility of Haskell's Hamlet style xml.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Are you interested?
>
>
> Thanks for looking into this!
>
> I can imagine that some (current or potential) Ur/Web users would appreciate
> this feature.  At the same time, since XML syntax is already very widely
> known among programmers, there is adoption value in retaining it.
>
> So, I'm interested in opinions from folks on this mailing list, about
> whether Gabriel's patch might be appropriate to accept into the main Ur/Web
> tree.
>
> (I think my personal preference would be to stick to the traditional XML
> syntax.  I'm warying of including alternative syntaxes, and the classic
> syntax seems important for accessibility to newcomers.)
>
>
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