--- "Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Turned out to be easier than I thought. Now to make the template handle more > than just hashes...
Bravo. But now you just opened up the can of worms we tried to steer you clear of. Now, i am not going to tell you that what you have discovered is worthless -- it's actually kinda cool and i meant "bravo" with no sarcasm. But ... ... what happens when the code that delivers the datastructure is wrong? What happens when you accidentally clober a value, and you can't seem to figure out why LIST_OF_FOO is empty or wrong. What are you REALLY accomplishing with your creation. In other words. There is no excuse for a lack of documentation. There is ONLY ONE way that a human can tell another human what his/her code is doing ... to roll up your sleeves and just do it. In other words, trying to make the output of Data::Dumper readable by non-programmers is not solving a problem, just a symptom. The problem is lazy people who don't want to be responsible and do a decent job of documenting their code. So, while you "tool" is pretty cool, it can only be an aid. There are going to be debugging issues that you can't catch programatically, like clobbering stash values -- because sometimes you do want a "cascading clobber". Anyways, best of luck ... i gots to get to work now. jeffa __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
