<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Terry Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:traymond@craftedsmalltalk.com" target="_blank">traymond@craftedsmalltalk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I constantly run into the situation where I am incorporating either HTML or javascript<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">in my methods. The problem I run into is the smalltalk string quote(‘). It is a real pain<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to double quote it, and don’t even try to copy and paste external javascript.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So, I think it would be real helpful to have some other funky string quote like<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">##{{ }}## or some sequence that is very unlikely to occur in another language.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone done this or even thought about it?</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>David Leibs has been pushing a well-thought-through facility he calls (and other systems name) "quasi-quote". Here, a string literal contains escape sequences, a little like printf, that allow one to substitute values. Dave's syntax uses square brackets to escape into Smalltalk. So that (IIRC) you say things like</div>
<div><br></div><div> '<html><head></head><body><H1>[myHeading]</H1>'</div><div><br></div><div>which compiles to something analogous to</div><div><br></div><div> String streamContents: [:s| s nextPutAll: '<html><head></head><body><H1>'; nextPutAll: myHeading asString; nextPutAll: '</H1>]</div>
<div><br></div><div>But this excellent suggestion has fallen on deaf ears (my own included) for more than a decade.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Terry<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
===========================================================<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Terry Raymond<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Crafted Smalltalk<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">80 Lazywood Ln.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>