- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:32:50 +0100
- To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, spec-prod@frink.w3.org
Marcos Caceres writes:
> On Monday, June 3, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>>
>> It does intrigue me to try to understand _why_ PHP-style coding is so
>> attractive that we do it even when good structure-based alternatives
>> are right there in the API, especially given that string bashing to
>> build structure is
>> a) fragile;
>> b) hard to read;
>> c) hard to debug;
>> and I presume
>> d) less efficient.
>
>
> I'm intrigued by what you mean by PHP-style coding? Do you mean using document.write and/or .innerHTML?
Yes, exactly -- building up complex strings piece by piece (and almost
always getting it wrong the first N times).
ht
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