on 10/2/2000 11:52 PM, "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I remember people criticizing, for example, freemaker for the ability to
> define functions, and I totally agree with it. KISS. Let's not make Velocity
> another mammoth. Macroses just do not belong here.
Although, functions are a bit different than Macro's. With a function, you
define a new language (or use an existing language...ie the way JSP works)
to work within that function. With Macro's you are simply defining re-usable
bits of VTM and HTML.
So, Fedor, do you have a suggestion for how to best solve the problem of
easily defining re-usable bits of VTM and HTML? In Turbine, we solve that
problem with Navigation templates. You can simply call:
$navigation.getTemplate("foo.vm") any where in your code and expect it to
get processed with the current context. So, how do we move that solution up
to Velocity where it belongs so that people who don't use Turbine can also
use this functionality?
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