[ic] ITL functions

[Brian J. Miller]

jeff at hisgirlfridays.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am just finishing up an experimental project of sorts.  To complete my latest IC 
> project, I determined that I was not going to use any of Foundation, and furthermore, I 
> was going to use ITL as much as possible.
> 
> As the project comes to a close, I'd say it worked damn well, with the exception of one 
> thing.  I don't know how to do a function that contains ITL.  For example, I found 
> that I cut-and-pasted large blocks of ITL in numerous places.  Now I should refactor those 
> blocks into function calls, but usertags consist of perl, not ITL.  I might be able to 
> make a generic usertag wrapper that called functions via include or some other kludgy 
> mechanism, but before I go off on a ridiculous tangent I was curious as to how some of the 
> experts here might address this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 

Not sure I constitute an expert on such things yet, but if you are
looking for a way to create reusable chunks of ITL I suspect the
"include" tag is the ticket (or at least one of them).

It is very similar to a standard server side include, only it
interpolates for ITL as well.  Technically it isn't like a function
where you could pass arguments, and receive a return value, but not sure
the ITL you are copying and pasting would need to do that anyways.
Everything that is normally available to the ITL is still available.

HTH,

B