[ic] ITL functions

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Fri Sep 16 01:21:31 EDT 2005


Quoting Daniel Browning (db at kavod.com):
> * jeff at hisgirlfridays.com <jeff at hisgirlfridays.com> [2005-09-15 17:39]:
> > 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.
> 
> I think that it would be very nice to have a simple, elegant argument
> passing scheme for ITL.  It would be useful even for short, simple
> ITL snippets that aren't ready to become perl code yet.  Something like a
> redesigned [component].
> 
> Throwing out some ideas...
> 
> [call-itl fn=foo a=1 b=2]
> 
>  * Sets up special environment variables, accessible via [arg a], [arg b]
>    (or scratch vars if we don't want to start a new namespace.)
> 
>  * Does an [include] itl_lib/<function>.itl (foo.itl in this case) (with
>    interpolation of argument variables as above) -- or maybe an
>    interpolate_html().
> 
> It would probably be difficult to get the order of interpolation just right.

No, not back to the days of [[tag]]!

There used to be such an animal, a [with ...] [/with] tag. But trust me,
Perl is a better way. 8-)

-- 
Mike Heins
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