On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Brad Choate wrote:
Hi all-- brand new to the list, but I've been using HTML::Template for
some time. Just to quickly introduce myself... I work at Six Apart as
one of the engineers of Movable Type. MT uses HTML::Template for all
of its application UI.
Hey Brad, good to meet you. I believe I owe my mention in the book
"We Blog" to Six Apart. I'll let you decide if that's a good thing or
not.
First, for filters: a filter should be able to determine what file is
currently being processed, if the contents of the template did come
from a file.
I guess that makes sense. I'm curious though - what are you planning
to do with this feature?
Second, for template vars that are coderefs.
To me, these are a bit limited since the coderef has no way to
determine it's context. I'm envisioning a scenario like this:
<TMPL_LOOP NAME=X>
<TMPL_VAR NAME=CODE_FOO>
</TMPL_LOOP>
The coderef associated with 'code_foo' is called for each iteration of
the array in parameter 'x', but 'code_foo' has no way to access the
active row of data.
This seems less obviously useful to me. If the data-structure for
loop X is so complicated then why make it more complicated by using
code-refs? Why not just bake it all into the structure you pass to
param() in the first place?
I should admit, I very rarely use code-ref params in my work. They
seem to have a very limited utility. I used them to implement
HTML::Template::Expr, but I wouldn't say I'm proud of that fact!
-sam
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