This is a minor philosophical consideration, totally unrelated to the OP, but relevant to tachyon's comment, hence the additional node.

If you have heard of the MVC paradigm, you probably are familiar with the basic goals of that programming model. I tend to use a paradigm that is somewhat similar to MVC. Specifically, one of the basic 'rules' is as follows:

Always make a clear separation between code that *creates* data fields (aka the 'M' part), and code that *outputs* those data fields into a 'fill in the blank' style template (aka the 'V' part).
Why? Because it is frequent that (over time) you have to make changes to one, independently of the other. Therefore, someone who follows this style is likely to create separate sections of code (eg separate subroutines) to handle these operations separately.

Given this approach, perhaps it becomes evident why someone would segment out code into separate subroutines, and why one subroutine would expect to get its data fields in prefectly segmented 'widgets' for spitting out a template (and a different subroutine would do the proper 'munging' to make sure they are perfectly segmented).

Then again perhaps it doesn't become evident. Oh well. FWIW. YMMV. Thanks for coming to the show. Please tip your waitress generously. Have a nice day.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Link regex by dimar
in thread Link regex by coldfingertips

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