I did some work with HTML::Template... Sam, as I remember, is quite adamant about a number of things :) He has his idea of what it does and that's that! Great guy though. I still use it for all of my perl needs. I was considering using the java version until I found velocity
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Colson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:09 AM To: 'Velocity Developers List' Subject: RE: Can comparisons be limited to true/false? > I see. You want to allow only a single reference that evaluates to a > boolean, and want to exclude more complex expressions altogether. I'm pretty sure that is correct to say. But the semantics can be a little confusing. $foo.bar.bleck must 'evaluate' to a boolean, but even though the expression $foo > $bar does 'evaluate' to a boolean -> I don't want to allow that. > Why would this behavior be desirable? I'm not saying it would be. I'm curious how I might make it happen. It is an academic pursuit. Next week, I may ask how I might change #if to <IF>. I got the idea, by the way, from another template system that I use in Perl called HTML::Template. http://html-template.sourceforge.net/html_template.html Sam Tregar, the author, is a well respected chap who has been building webapps for a long time. He happens to be adamant that comparisons not leak into the template, so HTML::Template only allows boolean references in TMPL_IF tags. Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
