Re: [Webmacro-devel] Yep, #macro/parser BUG. **Proof**

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 10:09  PM, Eric B. Ridge wrote:

> On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 09:19  PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>
>> Do the same with your macro.  There must be some way #visitChildren 
>> can expand to something that doesn't involve calling > 
>> #visitChildren....
>
> Did I miss something obvious or wouldn't that case be when $n has no 
> children?

I did miss something "obvious" (even tho I knew it already), and it's 
that #macro's are expanded into the template at build time, not run 
time.

So... this makes me think that making a #call directive for Macro is 
NOT a good idea because #call doesn't accurately represent how macros 
work and would likely lead to lots and lots of confusion along the same 
lines as this #visitChidren example.

eric