Greater and less than signs in attribute strings are converted to HTML entities.

[Anaphase]

div @show("todos.length > 0") compiles to <div ng-show="todos.length &gt; 0"></div>, which breaks Angular. Is there currently a way around this?

[Anaphase]

I looks like all HTML entities are converted everywhere:

button.close '×' compiles to <button class="close">&amp;times;</button>

Is this a necessary limitation? Seems to be causing lots of problems for me, and I can't figure out a way around it.

[Anaphase]

Okay, it looks like I can use backtick escaping to fix the second example (button.close ×), but that seems less than ideal and doesn't fix the first example.

[Anaphase]

Alright, after some further testing it appears that div @show("todos.length > 0") compiling to <div ng-show="todos.length &gt; 0"></div> actually doesn't break Angular. My problem was elsewhere. However, I still feel like this issue could be problematic in other use cases.

[padolsey]

This is an interesting issue. Either we abandon automatic HTML escaping or we keep it (for single/double quotes, and backticks never escape). I'm not really sure what to do because I can see merits with both.

It is a pain, when composing SIML, to escape my own content -- e.g. it's nice to be able to just type '&' for an ampersand instead of '&' but I can see your argument to.

I'll have a think about this. Maybe there should be an additional escaping prefix/operator to force escaping, otherwise nothing is escaped. e.g. ( using minus operator, similar to underscore.js' <%-Blah%>)

div a -' a > b > c'  // <div><a>a &gt; b &gt; c</a></div> 
div a 'a > b > c'    // <div><a>a > b > c</a></div>

[Anaphase]

I like the idea of the special non-escaping prefix. However, since we already have a "raw string" operator with the backticks, could we not just enable something like this instead?

div @show(`todos.length > 0`) // <div ng-show="todos.length > 0"></div>

(Currently, the line above compiles to <div ng-show="%%__HTML_TOKEN___%%0"></div>) I have no idea how language parsers work or if that's even feasible, but it seems like a smart idea to re-use the backtick operator here. I dunno.

[padolsey]

Ah, ok. I see the problem. You should indeed be able to use back-ticks within directives and attributes -- working on a fix now..

[padolsey]

Just pushed a fix and bumped version to 0.3.4. The div @show(todos.length > 0) snippet should work correctly now.

[Anaphase]

Awesome! Thanks for your help!