* suppressed <suppressed> [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. -- Daniel Browning <suppressed> - Kavod Technologies. Random Fortune: Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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