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1 point by hasenj 5111 days ago | link | parent

> I think CoffeeScript is wonderful. If only it had macros we'd be set.

It is.

I'm not sure about macros, but having something similar to s-expressions would be nice.

The only thing still kinda holding me back is html templating. Doing them in {{ templates }} like that was a horrible experience with Django. Jinja2 made it a bit more bearable, but {% endtag %} kind of stuff is still bad.



1 point by evanrmurphy 5111 days ago | link

> I'm not sure about macros, but having something similar to s-expressions would be nice.

Yes, s-expressions too. But what aren't you sure about regarding macros. (And what do you see as the benefit of s-expressions besides macros?)

> The only still kinda holding me back is html templating. Doing them in {{ templates }} like that was a horrible experience with Django.

Are you referring to http://mustache.github.com/ ?

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1 point by hasenj 5111 days ago | link

> what do you see as the main benefit of s-expressions besides macros?

For this specific problem (html generation), the advantage of s-expressions is you can build a tree with it, with minimum boilerplate. For example, the closing tag is just a ')'. Also, again for this specific problem, because we're mostly just generating strings, just having functions would probably suffice.

> Are you referring to http://mustache.github.com/ ?

Yea. I was looking for html templating system for Node, and that was about the only thing that came up.

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