Re: [Webware-discuss] notes on velocity

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 10:57 AM 4/23/2001 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I think the solution probably isn't to change #set, but to make the 
>$int.valueOf() implicit when you are using mathematical 
>operations.  (well, actually floats, I suppose)

Why? Python gets along great with treating ints like ints and strings like 
strings. That mathematical expressions are natural and "print" works with 
everything.


>>Zope's DTML does batching and it's dtml-var tag supports things like what 
>>to insert if the field is blank, how many chars to truncate at, what to 
>>append if the value is truncated, etc. I don't these concepts of batching 
>>or advanced substitution operators in velocity or webmacro. They might 
>>also be missing to some extent in several of the Python templating 
>>modules posted recently, although most are still in my "thorough review queue".
>
>I think these features are easy to add to any template system if the 
>syntax has a way of easily adding optional keyword arguments.  So I think 
>that's what you'd want to look for, more than the actual presence of these 
>particular features.

Well, I want everything, don't you know?  :-)

But you're right, if the syntax and implementation are extensible then we 
can add this in. If I remember right, that was one of the major points of 
your templating effort (which I haven't gotten to yet).


-Chuck