Re: [binarycloud-dev] extensible system tags

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Hello Alex,

I will get back on this.  It is just that my since my son was born I have
not had much time to catch up on e-mail.

On 22-Sep-01 18:32:48, you wrote:

>>> 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

>_a


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