Re: [Webmacro-devel] #templet directive

[Sebastian K. <seb...@mu...>]

Hi Keats,

On Saturday 21 June 2003 00:06, Keats wrote:
> I've finally gotten back to work on the #templet an #eval directives.  I
> thought I'd give an update and solicit some feedback.

I'm wondering, whether #eval should really be a directive. I think I dislike 
it, because you don't have a choice anymore, what to do with the evaluated 
templet: It always gets printed.

Remember Lane's wish to store templet's somewhere out of a wm-file? My 
proposal was to create a "Writer"-Tool, that can take any macro and store it 
somewhere.

So with your proposal, you could do

#template $t { bla bla blub blub $foo $bar }
$Writer.write("some/file.txt",$t)

if $t is a macro, but if you want to change the context, you couldn't. But if 
you would add a method "withContext(Map context)" to $t, you could do
$Writer.write("some/file.txt",$t.withContext({"foo":"a", "bar" : "b"})

Do you understand my point? What was the reason for needing an #eval-directive 
in the first place?

Sebastian

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