There is an old saying in software "if a bug exists for 12 months and no one
notices, then it becomes a feature".

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:

> The main problem with doing anything like this is that it's backwards
> incompatible. Since it's a reasonably small issue, it's easy to work around
> and we don't want to introduce new syntax for it, there really isn't much
> choice but to leave it as it is, regardless of what the right behavior is.
> I don't remember exactly what went into making the decision to do it the
> way we do now; it would definitely be a performance hit to do it the other
> way, and there are certainly reasons to think that it would be more
> surprising, given that every other value is converted with to_s.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Katherine Giron Pe <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
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>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Norman Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> At least in my implementation of Haml in Lua, the precompiler would
>>> have to wrap each script tag in a conditional to be evaluated by the
>>> renderer, and output nothing if the content is nil. In other words,
>>> doable but a pain in the butt for what IMHO is potentially confusing
>>> functionality.
>>>
>>> Also the way Haml is now, if you don't want the tag you can just add a
>>> conditional. The feature that's being described would leave you with
>>> no way to always get the tag if that's what you want, unless a config
>>> option is added.
>>>
>>> I think you guys made the right choice.
>>>
>>
>> Agree. Separation of concerns.
>>
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