[cgiapp] proposal to enhance load_tmpl() with default template name.

[Mark Stosberg <suppressed>]

Hello,

Here's a proposal to enhance a load_tmpl() a bit more. Now that we have
CGI::Application::Forward, we can reliably get the current run mode if
we want to.

I propose the load_tmpl() default trying $runmode.'.html' as the
template name, if no file name is provided.

I believe this is backwards compatible because currently an undefined
value would get passed to HTML::Template, which would die in this case. 

This means for common cases you can just do:

 my $t = $self->load_tmpl;
 $t->param(\%params);
 return $t->output;

And the project may be easier to navigate because of the added
consistency between run mode names and file names.

Of course, using the ::AnyTemplate plugin, this could be even briefer if
you want:

 return $self->template->fill(\%params);

While I think power users will gravitate towards using the ::TT or
::AnyTemplate plugins, I think some will prefer having this simple
feature in the core, without having to learn or use additional
middleware to talk to a templating system.

Thoughts? 

    Mark

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