Re: Tcl tags, still off line

["David N. Welton" <da...@apache.org>]

Wojciech Kocjan <zo...@nowiny.net> writes:

> > Yes, if it's a good thing, I'm willing to break backwards
> > compatiblity.  Keep in mind that some people have been using
> > mod_dtcl for a while though.  Posting a simple script that seeks
> > and changes .ttml files from <+ +> to <?dtcl ?> would probably be
> > appreciated if we do make this change.

> Why not using both <+ and <?dtcl ? This will be backwards compatible
> ...  

Because it will make the parser even uglier, and a bit slower.  I'm
going to play around with this some and see exactly how much.

I suspect I'll try and do it with ifdef's, so that people can turn it
off if/when they have transferred to the new system.

One idea I have is to use <? ?> and have the parser ignore the text up
to the first white space after the first <?, so that you can put
<?dtcl if it makes you feel better about identifying the script.  I
hate typing a lot of stuff in when I just want to print out a variable
though...  How do people feel about this?  The problem would be when
someone put <?hputs "foo"?> and their script didn't run...

> Then use <?dtcl ... and <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="dtcl"> - it may seem a bit weird
> as the language actually is tcl, but the 'dialect' is dtcl...

<script language....> is really ugly:-) And a pain in the ass to parse
if you don't match it exactly.

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