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10208 :: why does Nim source code filter add a newline at the end of the last line?

• ITwrx (orginal) [2023-05-20T18:03:28+02:00] view original

  from: https://nim-lang.org/docs/filters.html

  
  Example:
  </body>
  The filter transforms this into:
  "</body>\n")
  Run

  why should that last newline be added automatically?

  Now, i'm having to (try) and strip it (when returning html other than </body>).

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-05-20T21:04:09+02:00] view original

  HTML works fine with optional whitespace, you don't have to strip it. But you can also use a templating system more to your liking, there are a couple around.

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• ITwrx (orginal) [2023-05-21T01:08:23+02:00] view original

  I probably should have put "having to" in quotes, as it was meant as a casual reporting of what i was doing, as opposed to a big, serious complaint, but i'd rather not look at, or add boilerplate to remove, unnecessary newlines or whitespace i didn't purposely add in html i am generating myself. I also generally prefer the Nim source code filter to other templating libraries.

  I'm just wondering why Nim SCF should add a newline at the end of the last line. I didn't know if there was a reason, so i asked here first. If there is no reason, then i was wondering if you were interested in an FR/PR?, even if it is very minor, relatively speaking.

  thanks

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-05-21T01:22:52+02:00] view original

  How would you generate shell script code without these newlines? SCF is not just for HTML and the newlines simply make sense, it's like asking "why do triple quoted strings keep the newlines?", well because that's the point of them.

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• ITwrx (orginal) [2023-05-21T02:41:56+02:00] view original

  Ok, after your last post, i looked back at the docs page, and it's much more obvious than it was to me this morn... Sorry for the trouble.

  Thanks

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