Re: [WebMacro-user] WM.org down? - somebody pls remind me about recursion

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

Yes the #eval/#templet mechanism is the way to go.  You get a new 
context for each iteration with a reference to the original context.  
There's an example in the unit tests you can look at.

Keats

Marc Palmer wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I can't reach webmacro.org here - it's resolving but timing out. Eric?
>
>Anyway, can somebody give me a bit of clarity on WM recursion - I've
>forgotten the details.
>
>Basically I am recursively including a template to render a tree. However
>the included template is of course trashing the variables in the "outer"
>context.
>
>Is the solution to this to use #eval or #templet? Something that is part
>of WM core is preferred - whereby I can pass in certain values but the
>included template fragment gets its own Context.
>
>I'm using my WM JSP taglib code and it's working well "in anger" here
>(literally - the JSP pissed me off so much and caused so much ugliness to
>do this recursive rendering, so now we have a JSP/WM hybrid).
>
>I can "push" the sensitive variables to temp vars before the include and
>"pop" them off after but that is ugly indeed.
>
>Cheers
>
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