Hamlbars nested conditions

why.md

You wrote:

= hb 'if content.condition1' do
  = hb 'if content.condition2' do
    %p Some paragraph
    = hb 'else'
      %p another paragraph
  = hb 'else'
    %p third paragraph

Correct code:

= hb 'if content.condition1' do
  = hb 'if content.condition2' do
    %p Some paragraph
    = hb 'else'
    %p another paragraph
  = hb 'else'
  %p third paragraph

The reason for this is actually a haml syntax issue, not a hamlbars one. You cannot nest under a ruby statement unless you're passing in a block. Since {{else}} is not a handlebars block statement you don't pass in a block. Haml would help a lot if it threw the a similar error to the one it throws when you try and nest under plain text.

Even though it's ugly this should be in the README. This isn't shameful, you do the best you can do with what you're given. If people don't like it they can go back to normal handlebars with it's ERBish syntax.

seems like it'd be trivial to make the first case work (which is much more readable). if the expression in express() is equal to 'else' then you don't need to output demarcation.last

what do you think? would you accept a small patch that enabled the follow?

= hb 'if content.condition1' do
= hb 'if content.condition2' do
%p Some paragraph
= hb 'else' do
%p another paragraph
= hb 'else' do
%p third paragraph

shouldn't have any legacy code issues since this will only affect block expression that match 'else' (which at the moment, there should be exactly none of since it results in invalid handlebars syntax).

thanks!

correctly formatted

= hb 'if content.condition1' do
  = hb 'if content.condition2' do
    %p Some paragraph
    = hb 'else' do
      %p another paragraph
  = hb 'else' do
    %p third paragraph

I like the proposed syntax better. It seems much more natural.