[REBOL] Re: Parse refactoring puzzle
From: SunandaDH:aol at: 1-Aug-2003 2:55
Hi Joel:
> This sounds familiar, and I suggest that PARSE is overkill...
Thanks for the comments!
We're getting into systems design philosophy here, but my particular issue is
that I want clear-place-holders to be generic; and. in the application I'm
designing, that seems the best approach:
** There are lots of different bits of code before clear-place-holders (each
a different cgi program with a different html template). The _only_ reason
each of them would need to present a complete list of place-holders would be if
clear-place-holders wasn't generic.
** The html-template writer (a human at this stage) can add place-holders for
items that are not supported or substituted by the code. (They might just be
doodling, thinking, "would !!todays-date!! look good here, or here?" before
telling me that we should support the !!todays-date!! place-holder).
All I know is that as the last step before printing the HTML page, I want to
remove any stray place-holders that are left.
The parse solutions (mine and others') decouple the clear-place-holders
function from anything above it....With the one proviso that it has to trust that
higher code has substituted "!" for any "!" that the webpage user may have
typed into a field -- just to make sure we don't do place-holder removal when
someone's address really happens to be "!!my house!!".
(Your solution has the same problem, though it's less likely to be triggered
as the webpage user would have to type the text of an actual place-holder).
Sunanda.
