Re^5: How to PRINT CGI html...

> I don't recommend using the HTML generation fuctions of CGI.pm.

Can you please explain why: exactly? Generating HTML with subroutines is powerful, clean, fun. The concept seems to originate with the author of Devel::NYTProf about a year after the web was created. From HTML::AsSubs:

Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:11:30 +0100
Subject: Wow! I have a large lightbulb above my head!

Take a moment to consider these lines:

%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );

sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }

:-)  I *love* Perl 5!  Thankyou Larry and Ilya.

Regards,
Tim Bunce.
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Next year Perl will celebrate 25 years of functional HTML generation as one of the many supported Practical Extraction and Report Languages! <blink>*Cheers*</blink>

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Re^6: How to PRINT CGI html... by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 24, 2018 at 03:27 UTC
You get a `++` for the `<blink>Cheers</blink>` and another for defending simple HTML generation. It’s mostly why I still reach for CGI(::Pretty). Since I can’t give you two `++`s and I’m irritated by the thread I’ll hunt for a reason to take one back… Ah, the backronym--. Back to += 1 for that. :P	[reply] [d/l] [select]