Splat operator (conditional attributes) support?

[wulftone]

EDIT: Discovered the Splat operator, re-writing...

I'm trying to set up a conditional attribute... for example, I want the result to be one of the two following:

<a>Lotsa content</a>

or

<a href="some/link">Lotsa content</a>

The condition would be whether or not the href exists. So the skim pseudo-code would be something like this:

a *( if @url then { href: @url } else {} )
  Lotsa content

I know that doesn't work, obviously, but I can't find any way to do this in skim. Slim supports it via their splat operator. The "correct" coffeescript version would be like the example just above. In ruby/slim it's a *( @url ? { href: @url } : {} )

I'd rather not do this:

- if @url
  a href='#{@url}'
    Lotsa content
- else
  a
    Lotsa content

Because "Lotsa content" is a ton of code duplication. I also don't want the href in the a tag, because clicking on an empty href causes the page to reload. I could make the link do nothing when clicked on if there's no href, but it would be much easier just to omit the href and let that behavior happen naturally.

Would it be possible to implement the splat operator?

[jfirebaugh]

Yeah, skim should support all the same language constructs as slim, including the splat operator.

[wulftone]

I'm not sure what you mean by "should support". Do you mean it currently does, or that you're working on it?

[jfirebaugh]

Sorry, that was ambiguous. I mean, the design goal of skim is to support the same syntax as slim (modulo CoffeScript for Ruby). So the current lack of splat operator support is a bug.

[mahemoff]

Does this mean there's no way to do dynamic attributes with Skim at present? I'm trying to generate a tag where the "data-*" attributes vary.

Not sure if there's some other way to do it?