2. There is no "typeof" or "instanceof" operator (or similar). Perl has "ref" and "isa"; practically all real programming languages have at least one of those operators.
I'd bet a whole shiny quarter that people on this list can name more languages that don't than you can that do. :)
7. There is no way to comment out a whole block of template lines which includes
other directives. That is, you can't nest things like [%# [% %] %].
I end up having to create a separate emacs buffer to just hold fragments.
In perl this can be done with tricks like "=for IGNORE".
Simple trick for that one:
[% TAGS <+ +> %]<+# Stuff with [% variables %] in it +><+ TAGS [% %] +>
8. A bug: [% SET str = 'a'; str.repeat(0) %] prints 'a', not ''
I think is is deliberate. [% str.repeat("") %] also prints 'a'. [% str.repeat('0 but true') %] prints ''.
Still, we should probably fix that in Stash.pm... maybe...
'repeat' => sub {
my ($str, $count) = @_;
$str = '' unless defined $str;
! $count ||= 1;
+ $count ||= "0 but true";
return $str x $count;
},9. The diagnostics stink. (This was a topic of an earlier email post.)
Hoo boy. Yeah. :) Luckily, since most of us don't use it as a full OOP language and just use it to pretty print data we developed in perl proper, most of the errors are easy to find.
--mark mills Xodiax Engineering
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