object support

I haven't heard much feedback on the object support. I'm leaning toward not supporting any new syntax for it. A new syntax only complicates the engine IMHO, and warrants further complications later. If you want objects, you'll have to use a custom function (which may get included with the distribution.) so object access could look something like this (no decisions made yet): {object name="foo" method="bar"} If you want to use an object's output as a variable, you'd have to assign it first: {object name="foo" method="bar" assign="output"} {myfunc arg1=$output} parameters to objects will have to be handled somehow, maybe just arbitrarily... name, method, and assign are reserved, all else treated as parameters? {object name="foo" method="bar" p1="foobar1" p2="foobar2" ...} The alternative is to support object syntax: {$obj->meth($p1,$p2,"p3")} This can get pretty messy, especially if you want support for things like objects as parameters to objects, PHP functions as parameters, objects within objects, etc. I think I'd rather leave this out and only support a limited access method via a custom function (or limited to your own concoction of custom functions or pre/post filters.) Monte