Re: [Webmacro-devel] #templet directive

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Keats, Sebastian:

The templet is now a powerful language construct for WM. Good work, Keats!

Can a templet contain a templet?

Re:

#output file="some/file.txt" {
  #eval $t using { "foo":"a", "bar":"b" }
}

Is the above block evaluate or saved literally for later evaluation?

-Lane


Keats wrote:

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>>I'm wondering, whether #eval should really be a directive. I think I
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>dislike
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>>it, because you don't have a choice anymore, what to do with the evaluated
>>templet: It always gets printed.
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>Well you can always wrap it in a #setblock if you need the output for
>something else.
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>>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
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>it
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>>somewhere.
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>>So with your proposal, you could do
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>>#template $t { bla bla blub blub $foo $bar }
>>$Writer.write("some/file.txt",$t)
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>>if $t is a macro, but if you want to change the context, you couldn't. But
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>if
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>>you would add a method "withContext(Map context)" to $t, you could do
>>$Writer.write("some/file.txt",$t.withContext({"foo":"a", "bar" : "b"})
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>>Do you understand my point? What was the reason for needing an
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>#eval-directive
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>>in the first place?
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>You could still do this sort of thing with the $Template tool.  People
>didn't seem to like the template tool syntax, so I came up with the
>directive approach which seems a bit more user friendly.
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>My approach to the above would be to use a directive for the writer, say
>#output
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>#output file="some/file.txt" {
>  #eval $t using { "foo":"a", "bar":"b" }
>}
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>Would this work for you? Thanks for the feedback.
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>Keats
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