On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:01:59PM +0000, the hatter wrote: > That'll be mr cantrell and mr keay vs whoever wins the template system > heat - I want a fair fight guys, well-documented code, no unnecessary > golf, the winner is determined by knockout, submission, or by rendering a > template which shows how to write templates, without using 5 escape > characters in a row.
Aaaargggghhh, the memories, the memories! In a previous life, I had to hack with Storyserver. tcl is BAD. Anyway, one of my frobnitzes wasn't working, so I emailed support@vignette and they told me to "keep doubling the number of escape characters until it works". It did work. With THIRTY-TWO of the little bastards. You had to double the number of escape characters for every level of nesting in your code. This made it completely impossible to factor out large chunks of common code into modules which might be used at various different nesting levels. To be fair, I believe this was a bug in their implementation of tcl and not in tcl itself, but even so, I won't touch that foul, accursed tongue again. And ph3ar my l33t brick-text skillz! -- David Cantrell | Reprobate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't -- Marge Simpson
