Hi Daniel,

> Le 24 nov. 2018 à 20:11, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> a écrit :
> 
> Friday, November 23, 2018, 2:54:05 PM, Denis Bredelet wrote:
> 
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> Note this discussion:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-107
>> 
>> That looks like func.apply() in Javascript right?
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Spread_syntax
> 
> func.apply() gives identical functionality, but no syntax to make it
> succinct. Like consider (assuming the syntax is **kwargs, like in Python)
> 
>  <#assign commonParams = { 'style': 'foo', 'align': 'left' }>
>  ...
>  <@my.fancyInput type='text' size=10 **commonParams />
> 
> With function.apply-style it's something like:
> 
>  <@my?fancyInput?apply({ 'type': 'text', 'size': 10 } + commonParams) />
> 
> So that does the same without new syntax (it only adds a new built-in,
> "apply"), but is more verbose, and it changes the look-and-feel of the
> call a lot, just because you happen to need some dynamically added
> parameters there.

The extra parameters don’t need to be made into a map. You could just use this 
syntax:

<@my.fancyInput?apply(commonParams) type='text' size=10 />

>> -- Denis.
>> 
>> Another interesting and long missing feature. The question is what the
>> syntax should be, especially we need it both for by-position and
>> by-name parameter passing.
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Daniel Dekany
> 

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