Quoting Daniel Browning (suppressed): > * 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. 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 Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/ phone +1.765.647.1295 tollfree 800-949-1889 <suppressed> I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have. -- Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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