[Seaside] More S-Exprs

[Jim Benson]

Avi,

First, thanks for having the patience to answer these questions.



> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jim Benson wrote:
>
> > <table>
> > <tr repeat="@app/apps">
> >  <td><a href="@appLink" target="seasideapp">[app.key]</a></td>
> >  <td><a href="@edit:">(edit)</a></td>
> >  <td><a href="@remove:">(remove)</a></td>
> > </tr>
> > </table>
> >
> > How do you translate this?
>
> #(table
>    (tr sea:id: 'app/apps'
>       (td (a sea:id: appLink target: seasideapp '[app.key]'))
>       (td (a sea:id: edit: '(edit)'))
>       (td (a sea:id: remove: '(remove)'))))
>
> Out of curiosity, what was the hard part?

Not hard parts, just a total cloud of confusion:

First, I'm not far enough to have a full grasp of Seaside yet. For example
(and even though it's on the first page of the Seaside Design Overview ;-) I
couldn't see that you get a HTML element 'href=' out of

( a sea:id: edit: '(edit)')

In my naive attempts, I would try to do something like:

( a href: sea:id: 'edit:' '(edit)' )

This is all part of the learning curve.

Another hard part is the kind of 'magic' that the S-Expr brings. I would not
have gotten:

 (tr sea:id: 'app/apps'
    .... )

as a translation of

<tr repeat="@app/apps">

So I was doing something along the lines of:

( tr repeat: sea:id: 'app/apps' )

thinking that the "@app/apps" could be substituted by sea:id: 'app/apps',
when in fact it in addition replaces the previous term so that

repeat="@app/apps" becomes: sea:id: 'app/apps'

This is the same substitution as the <a href="@edit" , so it's beginning to
sink in. I think you told me this once before, but I didn't pay much
attention. I guess I needed another round of embarassment.

I'm glad I asked, thanks

Jim