Submitted by thunder3 on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 18:59
I have often read that the best way to learn a language is to write an interpreter for it. So, with this in mind, I have begun work on writing a jQuery interpreter for HAML.
Does this make any practical sense? Well, I suppose it does, if you want an alternative to tossing around AJAX responses in HTML, XML or JSON. Mostly, however, I am doing this to learn more jQuery and HAML. If it goes really well, I may extend it to handle CSS assignments by SASS (now wouldn't that be SASS~y!).
As of where I left it today, it will parse simple HAML statements as well as attribute hashes.
The things I still need to work on include:
- Respecting whitespace compressing and formatting rules
- Implementing some counterpart to RHTML statements. I am trying to decide what makes sense for jQuery. Maybe eval statements?
- Boolean attribute values (eg: selected = "selected")
- Attribute methods and definition statements (have to play with the scoping for this...I don't want to make it globally scoped)
So yeah, that's just a taste of what's to come, but it's already super neat that I can take something like:
#great
%p.paraclass
Some nice text
%p#secondpara{:class => "greatness"} Some paragraph text
And it all works!
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