OK, your suggestion definitely makes the snippet code more readable, but I fear I didn't make my point clear because the snippet code still is highly coupled with the view layout.
Imagine that I want to change my view from this: <a href="next"> <span class="name">name</span> <span class="comment">description</span> <span class="arrow"/> </a> to this: <span class="name">name</span> <span class="comment">description</span> <a href="next"> <span class="arrow"/> </a> This would mean that I need to change my template from: <b1:link> <span class="name"><b2:name/></span> <span class="comment"><b2:description/></span> <span class="arrow"/> </b1:link> to this: <span class="name"><b:name/></span> <span class="comment"><b:description/></span> <b:link> <span class="arrow"/> </b:link> And then I need to update my code from: bind("b1", xhtml", "link" -> kids => SHtml.link("next", () => clicked(b), bind("b2", kids, "name" -> b.name.is, "description" -> b.description.is ))) to something like this: bind("b", xhtml", "name" -> b.name.is, "description" -> b.description.is, "link" -> kids => SHtml.link("next", () => clicked(b)) ))) My complaint is that reorganizing the view is tending to require code changes at the snippet level. And that just doesn't seem right to me. At first, I thought that I could leverage the recursive nature of snippets. In other words, I thought I could avoid the b1 and b2 binding keys and simply use b, then when the first round contained more b variables to bind, it would recurse. Alas, this didn't work (I'm sorry, but I don't recall the error message). But this was what I was thinking: <b:link> <span class="name"><b:name/></span> <span class="comment"><b:description/></span> <span class="arrow"/> </b:link> or this: <span class="name"><b:name/></span> <span class="comment"><b:description/></span> <b:link> <span class="arrow"/> </b:link> and the code would remain this: bind("b", xhtml", "name" -> b.name.is, "description" -> b.description.is, "link" -> kids => SHtml.link("next", () => clicked(b)) ))) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---