Another batch of ideas

After reading through Perl's HTML::Template docs I think we can steal some ideas from them. Let's talk if these would be useful or not. - Automatic escaping of variable contents when printing into the output optional control through escape=true/false attribute - Assigning values to vars inside a specific section. I'm not sure if this would be useful or not. - How template path is figured out. The HTML::Template does this: The file specified can be a full path - beginning with a '/'. If it isn't a full path, the path to the enclosing file is tried first. After that the path in the environment variable HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT is tried next, if it exists. Next, the "path" new() option is consulted. As a final attempt, the filename is passed to open() directly. Instead of HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT, we could have an .ini setting. It could also check doc_root. - Having a warning if trying to assign to a variable that is not mentioned in the template. - Having a parameter that specifies whether the parsed template is cached. - Having something like HTML::Template's __FIRST__, __INNER__, __LAST__ special variables that get activated when we're in first, middle, or last iteration of the section loop. Maybe also a number __LOOPNUM__ or something that is evaluated to 1, 2, 3, etc. -Andrei * If it's never finished, you can't prove it doesn't work. *