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This wouldn't be something HAML would do. If you want it done, write a helper and use gsub to substitute the characters you want.

Ryan Bigg  2009-10-10 22:03:00
Perhaps it is something that HAML "doesn't" do, but that doesn't mean that it isn't something that it "wouldn't" do. HAML already parses what's in `.haml` files and rewrites it for semantically correct HTML, so it stands to reason that it "could" do this replacement. It would be so nice to just type `it's possible` rather than `it’s possible`, you know?
neezer  2009-10-10 22:39:28

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