For awhile, I've been pretty religious about not putting code in my html. In perl, I've been using TemplateToolkit, doing all processing before handling off to the templates. In cases where things become complicated, I would write TT plugins. In java/jsp, I would always use taglibs instead of jsp scriptlets.

Recently I've been "pushed" into two projects: one in PHP, another in Mason, both of which tend to embed code in html (of course, neither have to, even PHP has its own template systems: Smarty or Flexy.) I'm especially pleased with my first encounter with Mason, although I haven't yet got into something too complicated. I was delighted to find the component inheritance concept in Mason, and think it probably is the "correct" model for webpages with a common layout.

This short note is just a reminder to myself that good things can happen when one ventures out into something one philosophically/religiously rejects, this applies to frameworks as well as languages.

In reply to First encounter with Mason by johnnywang

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