Re: [binarycloud-dev] extensible system tags

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

>> Not really, because you're actually building logic with MetaL, whereas we're
>> just doing string replacement that's supported by logic that figures out
>> what to replace with.
> 
> Actually that is precisely what the MetaL compiler module named template
> does.  You just say that there is some template data in a file and that you
> want to clip some data from it and have some data replaced with variable
> values that are specified in your program.
> 
> Need examples?

Hmmm... yes, that would be great.

>> I.e. we have a tag for putting the correct language version of a string
>> based on the current language code, or putting in a bunch of code for a
>> static module call from page, etc.
> 
> Those would be done with MetaL by passing variable values that would
> represent the data that you want to replace in the the template.

Ok.

> 
>> I need to spend a little time with MetaL to get more comfortable with it,
>> but I don't think what we're doing crosses.
> 
> Yes, I think you could save yourself a lot of development effort if you
> look closer into MetaL and realize that it does already what you need.
> 
> What you are trying is one of the things that MetaL template can do, which
> is replacing data within template data.  MetaL can also replace template
> data with code generated by some other module.  To benefit from MetaL
> power, obviously you don't need to use everything that it is capable of.

Indeed, though I was not thinking that MetaL did that.

hmmmmm

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