Support keyword lists without braces for deftags
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What are your thoughts on supporting keyword lists to tags without requiring explicit brackets? This would require defining an additional deftag match since do
just becomes another key/value pair within the options, but at first glance the additional code would be minimal and would would provide a cleaner markup structure, i.e.:
The win is pretty small, but I'd much prefer to write something like this if possible. Thoughts?
html do
head class: "head" do
meta charset: "UTF-8"
end
body do
article id: "main-content" do
section class: ["intro", "article"] do
h3 "Hello world"
end
section class: ["conclusion", "article"] do
"TODO"
end
end
end
end
Hi Chris,
This is related to the issue Josh reported here #1 . See my last comment for my thoughts about this. However, I certainly agree that the resulting markup looks cleaner. Since your the second person asking for this and records will be replaced by structs in Elixir (see my comment in #1 why this is relevant), I'll have a look to see if I can implement your request this weekend.
I just released a version of Eml that supports most of your example. The only thing that's not possible with the current version of Eml is writing:
h3 "Hello World"
as you now need to write:
h3 [], "Hello World"
Reason is that I'm still not sure if it would be a good idea to let the first argument of the markup macro's dispatch on argument type.