- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:25:06 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>, www-style@w3.org, Michel Onoff <michel.onoff@web.de>
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 01:27 +0200, Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> Also sprach Liam R E Quin:
> > A declarative alternative might be a way to express alternatives based
> > on conditionals,
> >
> > a.xref {
> > content:
> > /* chapter number, figure number, here, then... */,
> > when(target.nextpage, "see next page")
> > when(target.pagenumber = pagenumber, "(this page)")
> > ;
> > }
>
> Interesting idea. It's beginning to look like a programming language. Hmm.
XSLT (which is a declarative prog. lang.) isn't _all_ bad :-)
But I do think it useful to avoid keywords like if/then/else that to
many people suggest procedural code.
Liam
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