>>>>> "Mark" == Mark D Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> Keep in mind this is with the best of intentions; I'm sure TT is the most Mark> mature of the "mini-language" school of perl templating solutions. But don't misunderstand what TT is about. I think perhaps you are. You deliberately don't *want* TT to be a full programming language. It has *just enough* to do most tasks. Mark> 2. There is no "typeof" or "instanceof" operator (or similar). Mark> Perl has "ref" and "isa"; practically all real programming languages Mark> have at least one of those operators. Right. TT doesn't need it. TT is not a "real programming language". It's a language for translating a data structure into a view of that data structure. That's all. If you want polymorphism, put it into the objects you feed into the template. Don't pollute TT into that. Mark> 5. The iterator objects/methods are not generic. There's some planned unification in TT3. Mark> 6. You can't call methods directly on literals, for example Mark> [% 'asdf'.length %] or [% [1,3,2].sort %]. Why would you want to? :) Mark> 9. The diagnostics stink. (This was a topic of an earlier email post.) Understood and agreed. But again, the TT code is supposed to be small compared to your data-generating code. Mark> 10. Boolean interpolation is non-obvious. [%1==2%] interpolates Mark> as '', and [%2==2%] interpolates as '1'. Actually, that's precisely what Perl is returning. Brilliant! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
