The idea is interesting, but the execution is lacking. I am uncomfortable with the caller having to remember to assign to $out in order to get a value into the cell. In fact, I don't really see what you gain by taking a sub reference instead of a string. (If taking the reference has an advantage, why not check the type of parameter, and handle both?)

I am even more unhappy with the method you use to pass in the table parameters. It's an array, which you interpolate in the print. But if it's not passed, you assign it an empty string! If $st is an empty string, what is $st->[2] ?

IMHO, you should use a hash instead of an array, and check all the values passed in - then only fill out those attributes of the table which have the attribute set.

And to the same for the row and cell, of course - people often need to set their attributes.

In reply to Re: Readable HTML tables (revisited) by matija
in thread Readable HTML tables (revisited) by dimar

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