On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > Chris> 2. The template language should not follow Perl syntax rules, > > Chris> or be designed with preference towards Perl users or > > Chris> programmers. > > 1. developing a good language is very difficult.
I didn't mean to necessarily infer the development of a whole new language, but I wanted a relaxed syntax that didn't appear to be an obvious interface to Perl. In a few of the template systems I used as examples, they rely on variables to be identified with a dollar sign (like perl scalars), or they use the => operator to represent the assignment of values. > 2. why do we need a template *language*. What is it about templating > that requires a new *language*? Templating entails a few simple > operations that can be handled in any general purpose language - LISP, > Perl, Python, C, C++. Again, language was probably too strong of a word. Maybe grammar or syntax rules would be a better choice. -------------------- Christopher Josephes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
