For me, it's because writing markup intended for human beings in a programmatic style doesn't give me any visual clues as to how it's going to look. The whitespace is a convenient but only inciental way of achieving that.
Builder is totally fine when I'm outputting formatted data like XML because what little adornment goes into that format isn't something I need to be conscious of, and in fact, it's probably simpler if I'm not aware of it at all. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Alex Goldsmith <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote: > I get what HAML's about, and that it's better than ERB, but why not go > with something completely Ruby along the lines of XML Builder? > > Then you get extensionality and composability for free. > > If using indents for structure was that important, why not just use > Python? > > [Genuine question, not a flame.] > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
