It might be possible for the parent to look into its children, and
analyze the child blocks, and if a block in the child contains a
{{super <me>}} it can then take its own value and replace it into the
{{super me}}.-- Thadeus On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. > > As much as I would like the functionality... This cannot be done as > the system stands. Child templates know nothing of their parent, > therefore they are unable to request anything from the parent > template. > > The way that you effectively override a block is by effort of the > parent looking at all its children and going "Hey, you have the same > block I do, so I will use yours". > > So the way to do this, is for the child to know about its parent, and > its parents parents, and parents parents parents (etc, depending on > the level of hierarchy.) The issue is, how does this element then > determine which parent it should pull from, assuming the grandparent > defines a block, and the parent overrides the block, what is left is > not what is intended. > > -- > Thadeus > > > > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Yarko Tymciurak > <[email protected]> wrote: >> nyway, I don't know what the right syntax / implementation (exactly) >> of a template "super" function is - I just know it makes sense, and I >> think we should have it (I am certainly investing a lot of effort in >> driving exploration of how it would work, look, and w >
