[web-devel] Hamlet and functions that take multiple arguments

[Mark Bradley]

looking at the code it does appear that your grammar for ContentEmbed
objects could be extended to include lparen and rparen's.  I'm not
sure exactly how this would translate with the deref function in
Text.Hamlet.Quasi (i havent used template haskell before) but it looks
like it is entirely possible, meaning my example would become:

fun f x = [$hamlet| ^(template.f).x^ |]

and all is well.  you could add an encoding for this such as:

template.f,x

this would have the same effect as the $ function from regular haskell.

the problem with that encoding is that is it less general than just
allowing parens and probably more error prone.

the good thing about this is that it doesn't really matter how
complicated you make the encoding and parsing and haskell code
generation because it happens once at compile time.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Mark Bradley <barkmadley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hamlet doesn't appear to support functions that take more than one
>> argument.
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>> fun f x = [$hamlet| ^template.f.x^ |]
>>
>> produces the call template (f x)
>>
>> is there some way to make hamlet produce (template f) x?
>
> Unfortunately not. It's not any *technical* limitation in Hamlet, just that
> I can't think of a good, intuitive syntax for it. The way that I work around
> this is by defining variables in a where clause, eg
> fun f x = [$hamlet|^templateTmp^|] where templateTmp = template f x
> If you have better ideas, I'm open to hearing them ;).
> Michael