On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Richard Harding <rick.hard...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Robert Collins wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Richard Harding >> <rick.hard...@canonical.com> wrote: >> > Yes, you are correct. This then gets into why some of us aren't the biggest >> > fans of Mustache as a template language. A very similar language with >> > similar syntax is Handlebars. The nice thing about handlebars is that it >> > supports the idea of helpers. >> > >> > http://handlebarsjs.com/#helpers >> > >> > If you follow that idea you could see writing a json_dateparse helper that >> > you could register and use in your template >> >> I think that that is a quirk of moustache.js, as pystache supports >> external helpers (and moustache started in ruby, so ... I suspect >> in-context helpers is a bogon :) >> >> -Rob > > I was looking through the documentation of the overall mustache spec vs any > implementation: > > http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html > > I don't see any other way than going the route of defining a lambda and > adding it to the model instances as you passed them in to render. > > It does look like the Ruby implementation has the concept of helpers, and > checking the pystache code it looks like it has some ability to create > Modifiers? Is this what you're referring to?
Ah yes, I see. I was talking about Modifiers indeed, and I see the closure bit. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
