On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Dave Howorth wrote:
In the context of the original question, it's also worth remembering
that an object is not the same as a hash as far as TT is concerned. It
unifies the syntax to call accessors and to access the members of a
hash. But it does *not* let you access arbitrary elements in a blessed
hash as Perl does. In TT, you can only use the methods.
Huh? That's not true at all. In fact, TT2 does exactly the opposite. If I
do this in my template:
[% object.something %]
It tries to call a method something() on that object. However, if that
method does not exist and the object is a blessed hash, then TT2
"helpfully" looks up "something" as a hash key. Of course, if that key
does not exist, TT2 will "helpfully" just keep going without a warning or
error. This helpful behavior has cost me many hours of debugging.
And yes, I know there's a mode for TT2 where you can make it barf on any
instance of undef in a template substitution, but that's often _too_
strict.
-dave
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