Sean Allen wrote:
> 
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 
>> Sean Allen wrote:
>>> On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
>>>> Your language files would look something like:
>>>>
>>>> [% BLOCK welcome %]
>>>> Hello [% first_name %]
>>>> [% END %]
>>>>
>>>> Your other templates would then include the blocks:
>>>>
>>>> [% PROCESS welcome %]
>>>>
>>>> So, this method is one-pass and all the templates are compile-cached.
>>> I thought of this but we have use cases where we actually embed template
>>> content up to 4 levels deep so that the first translation returns 
>>> content
>>> that in return gets evaluated etc.
>>> The one thing I like about the solution I came up with is it doesnt 
>>> require the template
>>> user to know what is coming in the string. No need for having to know 
>>> if it needs
>>> to be eval'd again or not.
>>> Could something similar be achieved with Locale::Maketext?
>>> I read through the cpan listing and I don't see anything to handle 
>>> that. Then again,
>>> I used tt2 for 2 years and never noticed the eval filter.
>>
>> The Block method would handle this just fine.  I suspect that Maketext 
>> would not.
> 
> How would the block method handle? I'm just not seeing that.
> Wouldn't the block method require you to know that first_name needs to 
> be eval'd again?

It is a standard feature of TT2.  Templates and Blocks are evaluated 
recursively when you use PROCESS or INCLUDE.

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