I was pretty happy to learn about the web-server/templates package, which allows you to include the contents of a template file and have it dropped into the lexical context of the calling site. I’ve often wanted something like this so I could write only a single copy of things like headers and footers, and partials for listing chapters/articles in different contexts, etc.
I started fiddling with it in a Pollen project and, come to realize it was working even though I hadn’t `require`d or `provide`d any functions from web-server/template. How is this possible, I think. Some digging revealed that Pollen implements its own `include-template` function—and that it is provided automatically for code inside a Pollen template. I guess this is cool? But - have you thought about including it in the docs? It’s pretty useful, and the docs could also help avoid confusion among those who already know about web-server/template. The docs do mention that include-template is used behind the scenes but not that it's also available in Pollen templates. With appropriate warnings about XSS concerns. - might it also be worth providing or reimplementing web-server/template's `in` function? [2] (maybe it already does so, I confess I haven’t checked yet) And then, perhaps including it in the docs somewhere as well. - are there tradeoffs between the `include-template` provided by Pollen and the one in web-server/template? [1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html#%28form._%28%28lib._web-server%2Ftemplates..rkt%29._include-template%29%29 [2]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html#%28form._%28%28lib._web-server%2Ftemplates..rkt%29._in%29%29 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pollenpub+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
