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diff --git a/docs/users_guide_src/comparisons.tex b/docs/users_guide_src/comparisons.tex index 762c7ad..5114437 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide_src/comparisons.tex +++ b/docs/users_guide_src/comparisons.tex @@ -50,28 +50,7 @@ docs at the moment. Cheetah, however, has a number of advantages over Velocity: \begin{itemize} \item Cheetah is written in Python. Thus, it's easier to use and extend. -\item Cheetah's syntax is cleaner, more flexible and is closer to Python's. - Here's an example -\begin{verbatim} -#for $i in range(15) -$i -#end for -\end{verbatim} - instead of -\begin{verbatim} -#foreach($i in range(15)) -$i -#end -\end{verbatim} - - The following is possible Cheetah but not in Velocity: -\begin{verbatim} -#for $key, $val in $myDict -$key, $val -#end for -\end{verbatim} - - +\item Cheetah's is closer to Python's than Velocities is to Java's. \item Cheetah has a powerful caching mechanism. Velocity has no equivalent. \item It's far easier to add data/objects into the namespace where \$placeholder values are extracted from in Cheetah. Velocity calls this namespace a 'context'. @@ -102,24 +81,12 @@ context1.put("duplicate", "I am in context1"); dictionary keys for `spam'. Finding it, Cheetah will select \code{foofoo['spam']} as \code{\$spam}'s value. -\item Cheetah has better whitespace handling around \#directive tags -\item Cheetah integrates tightly with Webware. Velocity doesn't integrate as - easily with Turbine. -\item Cheetah has a plugin that enables PSP-style coding to be freely mixed in - with the Cheetah syntax. Velocity doesn't. -\item It is easy to add new \#directives to Cheetah. You can't do this easily in - Velocity. \item In Cheetah, the tokens that are used to signal the start of \$placeholders and \#directives are configurable. You can set them to any character sequences, not just \$ and \#. \end{itemize} -% @MO: Removed because macros no longer exist: -% \item Cheetah has an extension to the \#macro syntax that makes it easier to -% call macros that accept large strings as arguments: e.g. a macro that -% pretty-prints a chunk of source code. - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Cheetah vs. WebMacro} \label{comparisons.webmacro} |