On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Mark Fuller wrote:
> I'm not a big object guy. Subclassing H::T is probably beyond my capability.
I doubt that. Give it a try. If you have trouble, post here and I'll
be happy to give you a hand. If you have no idea where to start I'd
suggest picking up Damian Conway's "Object Oriented Perl". It's a
great book.
> However, if you think it would be useful to have a "persistent evaluation"
> of the *cached* template (so that the partially-evaluated template is
> returned with each subsequent "new" method calls), I hope you'll keep it in
> mind if/when H::T is enhanced.
Why? I still haven't heard a compelling use-case aside from dynamic
includes which I think can be handled in better ways.
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there an easy way I could clone the
> template object in $my_template_hash{$visitor_language}, perform my single
> display-specific evaluations upon it (without disturbing the original
> object), and then reclone it for the next display (discarding the earlier
> clone)? If there is a way, in your opinion would this be more or less
> efficient than me performing my own re-evaluation of things that otherwise
> would be default values (i.e., the problem mentioned in the previous
> paragraph)?
Easy? No, I doubt it. I can think of some hard ways...
-sam
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