On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:01:57PM -0500, Lyle Brooks wrote: > I was wondering why Plugins were not designed to be sub-classes > of the Template::Context class?
Think of the context as an arena into which everything else is loaded: stash, templates, filters, plugins, etc. Plugins have a reference to the context so that they can access these other resources, but other than that, they're totally stand-alone chunks of code. > I just seems like if you're going to get reference to a Template::Context > object pre-prepended onto your argument list, it would seem more natural > if it actually were a method call. I can see where you're coming from, but plugins and contexts really are different kettles of fish. A
