Question marks in field names?

[kwbock]

We are using a ruby style naming convention for our boolean fields on our backbone models. Does handlebars support fields named such as {{#unless unprocessed?}}//stuff{{/unless}}.

Thanks for your help.

[jokesterfr]

What does the ? mean?
What about making your own helper?

[kwbock]

Well we are a ruby shop, so a lot of our ruby code follows the paradigm
that method_name? is a method that returns a boolean. As such we have
structured our backbone models to follow this as well.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Clément Désiles
notifications@github.comwrote:

What does the ? mean?
What about making your own helper ?

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[jokesterfr]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Handlebars is not intended to receive methods as input, but data objects. Well, you could say a method can be part of an object, but use a helper to do so, as application logic should never be part of the view.
Following the MVC pattern, your controller has to output the model, so let's compile up your method_name? calls into the model (e.g. into {myboolvar: false}), and then perform a {{#unless myboolvar}}//stuff{{/unless}} compilation.

[kpdecker]

On the name itself, {{#unless [unprocessed?]}} should work with existing code. Supporting ? as an unescaped identifier is something that we will need to think about as I can see use cases for this as a control character if we want to additional functionality to the language itself.