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

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:46:08 -0400, Eric B. Ridge <eb...@tc...> wrote:

> 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.

Definitely agreed. I missed the same thing too :)

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