[ic] [item-subtotal] in array lists

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke at linuxia.de):
>> Mike Heins wrote:
>>> Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke at linuxia.de):
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a reason that [item-subtotal] doesn't work in array lists like
>>>>
>>>> [query sql="select sku,quantity from cart_products where cart = 2009" list=1]
>>>> ...
>>>> [/query]
>>>>
>>>> It appears to be an omission which should be fixed in Interpolate.pm.
>>>>
>>> Why? There is no cart item to subtotal. 
>> Table cart_products has sku and quantity as the inline shopping cart.
>> So there are cart items to subtotal.
>>
>> Purpose:
>>
>> I don't want to store saved carts (and wishlists) into Perl hashes
>> inside database fields.
>>
>>> Now if you decided to allow
>>> cart items to be arrays as well as hashes,
>>>
>>> I think it would be as useful to have [item-math quantity * subtotal].
>>>
>> IMHO all lists should behave pretty much the same. These undocumented
>> exceptions aren't any good.
> 
> They aren't undocumented. But even if they were, the work that someone
> should do is to bring hash and array lists together completely. And I
> don't quite see how to do that. 8-)

OK, but you agree it would be a good thing ?

> 
> But it occurs to me that it would not be too difficult to provide
> this exception routine (pseudo-code)
> 
> 	s{\[item-(\w+)\s*(.*?)\]}{extra_routines($1, $2)}g;
> 

That would make the whole list business a lot more flexible.

Regards
         Racke

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