Debug statement

debugstatements.js

  /**
   * Manages connections to hosts.
   *
   * @param {String} uri
   * @Param {Boolean} force creation of new socket (defaults to false)
   * @api public
   */

  io.connect = function (host, details) {
    var uri = io.util.parseUri(host)
      , uuri
      , socket;

    if ('undefined' != typeof document) {
      uri.protocol = uri.protocol || document.location.protocol.slice(0, -1);
      uri.host = uri.host || document.domain;
      uri.port = uri.port || document.location.port;
    }

    {{
        // confirm that the uri is correctly parsed
        io.log.debug('uri', uri);
    }}

    uuri = io.util.uniqueUri(uri);

    var options = {
        host: uri.host
      , secure: uri.protocol == 'https'
      , port: uri.port || 80
    };
    io.util.merge(options, details);

    if (options['force new connection'] || !io.sockets[uuri]) {
      socket = new io.Socket(options);
    }

    if (!options['force new connection'] && socket) {
      io.sockets[uuri] = socket;
    }

    socket = socket || io.sockets[uuri];

    // if path is different from '' or /
    return socket.of(uri.path.length > 1 ? uri.path : '');
  };

And than in our builder.js we could completely remove the statement with a simple regexp {{[^{{]+?}}\r? like that

better we can reuse underscore's tiny templating (and even express res.render, though it would be very tough dep) and use <% statements %> and <%= expression %> (or whatever instead of <%, including mustache-style {{)

The thing is.. writing {{ is valid javascript. Doing <$ will throw an error.

Unless you something like:

'<%'
    io.log.debug('uri', uri);
'%>'

Which requires much more typing to make it readable for javascript engines.

i understand that (or whatever instead of <%, including mustache-style {{). the point was to possibly make internal static server smarter to support templating