22.2 The type Statement

22.2.1 Synopsis

type:

text + Cows expressions

endtype;

22.2.2 Description

Text is copied verbatim to output with an exception: everything enclosed between @@ characters will be treated as an expression and its value will be echoed.

In other words, writing @@ expression @@ inside Type Mode corresponds to writing echo (expression); outside Type Mode.

22.2.3 Example

<cows>
author1 = "-- Joan Gilbert";
author2 = "-- Albert Schweitzer";

type:

<p>
Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as
'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun,
profit or convenience was at stake.
@@ author1 @@

<p>
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it
is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that
black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such.
What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is
considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form
of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is
coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long
before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible
with real ethics.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that
has life.
@@ author2 @@

<HR>
Updated: @@ date ("#d #M #y") @@

endtype;
</cows>

Compare this example with code in previous section (Section 22.1); you'll find this new syntax much more readable.

This is Cows' output:

<p>
Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as
'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun,
profit or convenience was at stake.
-- Joan Gilbert

<p>
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it
is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that
black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such.
What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is
considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form
of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is
coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long
before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible
with real ethics.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that
has life.
-- Albert Schweitzer

<HR>
Updated: 16 May 2002