Paul Everitt wrote:
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It would be helpful to make hideuosness a little more specific.
Good point.
What makes it hideous? Is it the noice characters? (!--#) Is it the number of shift characters? Is it the fact that DTML don't look like other tags? Is it the tag in an attribute problem mentioned above?
I'd say, in order:
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3) When something interesting requires the expr machinery, you can only do one expression per line. (Note that this complaint isn't slated to be solved by a syntax change in DTML, just that it is a common complaint).
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