[LRUG] HAML

[Piers Cawley]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Tom Armitage <tom at infovore.org> wrote:
> I am always wary of abstractions, and as with all abstractions, the
> main point is: make sure you understand the thing being abstracted
> first. If you don't write decent HTML, HAML won't help. If you do, it
> will. This is the main problem it has (and, that because it's all a
> bit strange, it's favoured by back-end devs, rather than client-side
> bods). But I'm a total convert, if only for my wrists' sake.

The thing is, HAML is not an abstraction, not in the usual sense of
the world at least. Given a valid html document it's possible to
translate it directly to HAML and back with no loss of information.
HAML is just syntax.