On Thursday 15 January 2004 03:11, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Here's a little toy for your amusement. On comp.lang.python today, I
> discovered that Twisted is building a next-generation templating system,
> called Nevow (a wordplay on "Woven", their earlier system, and "nouveau").
>
> This is what Nevow template code looks like. It's valid Python, though it
> looks more like an S-expression:
>
>      document = html[
>          body[
>              form(action="")[ input(type="text", name="name") ],
>          ]
>      ]
>
Speaking of s-expressions here's a lisp version which looks similar
http://opensource.franz.com/aserve/aserve-dist/doc/htmlgen.html

but lisp is old-hat right? ;-)

> Sneaky tricks with __call__ and __getitem__ are used to pull off this feat
> of syntactic sugaring. More (and better) examples can be seen at
>
>      http://stewstuff.com/doc/nevow.xhtml
>
>
> I wrote a little Nevow implementation, just so I could see what the system
> felt like. It's a toy, of course, but I thought you might enjoy playing
> along.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try.

Jon