On 2012-11-13 07:12, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Brian Katzung <bri...@kappacs.com> [2012-10-09 21:10]:
Absolutely bare-bones syntax (it is my hope that even non-programmer
users (with some limited training) can edit templates)
Looking at your docs, to be frank, I donât think you succeed at this
one. In my experience, non-programmers do best with Template Toolkit
syntax that limits itself to the most basic features, i.e. basically
Template::Simple or Template::Tiny. Function calls like you have are
programming, and punctuation-heavy syntax scares them. Of course, if
you administer training, you will overcome this to some extent, thus
maybe for your own purposes TemplateLiteâs misses in this department
are not apparent.
Regards
Thank you for your note, Aristotle.
Here's what I would consider a typical use case for Text::TemplateLite:
"nicely" displaying the number of matches returned by a query using
Template and Text::TemplateLite:
# The Template Toolkit template:
my $tt_tpl = q{Your search returned [% IF m == 0 %]no matches[%
ELSIF m == 1 %]1 match[% ELSE %][% m %] matches[% END %].};
# The Text::TemplateLite template:
my $tl_tpl = q{Your search returned <<??(=($m, 0), 'no matches',
=($m, 1), '1 match', $m' matches')>>.};
# (Substitute "ifel" for "??" if desired)
From reading the docs, I don't see how to do this at all using
Template::Simple, and Template::Tiny doesn't like the conditionals (per
its documentation, and confirmed in my testing).
I would say that "if condition/elsif condition/else/end" is programming
too, and it looks to me like there's plenty of punctuation to go around.
The T:TL syntax has the benefit of being easily "balance"-checkable in
an editor such as vim.
I'm expecting that most users will use an existing template as a
prototype, and that the remaining users won't be too shaken by a syntax
I believe is pretty close to a spreadsheet cell formula. I guess time
will tell. :-)
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