I've considered doing an HTML::Template version 3 a few times, but never found the time to do it. I even went so far as to draft a design document. Here it is! (Note, I have no plans to actually do this work anytime soon.)
Hi Sam,
Something that might be of interest to you that I came across just the other day, is the design documents for the up coming Template Toolkit 3.
I have always found that HTML::Template and Template Toolkit complement each other, and each have their own niche. However, if you haven't already done so, I would recommend reading the following document by Andy Wardley where he talks about some of the changes he plans to implement in TT 3.
http://www.template-toolkit.org/tt3/design/namespace.html
He seems to mirror several of the suggestions that you are making in your notes. The most interesting thing I noticed is that he hopes to include 'Language Packs', where the module can support other templating languages, like HTML::Template and Mason...
I would be very interested in seeing a module that was able to gather the best of both modules under one roof (still allowing the strict simplicity of HTML::Template, or if warrented turning on some of the power of TT). One concern I see is that one of the key reasons people use HTML::Template is the blazing speed that it performs at. I fear that too much abstraction and generalization may hamper that (it doesn't have to, but it may).
For now I will continue to use HTML::Template and TT2 where I see fit...
Cheers,
Cees
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