[Petal] Re: Petal wish list

[William McKee]

Jean-Michel,

Oh, I see now the differences between TAL and Petal. Please don't break your 
existing functionality in order to make it TAL compliant! Your syntax seems much 
more useful. I definitely agree about the inflexion operator. I'm perhaps one of the 
few to be glad to see that changing in Perl6. Shows my Win* background.

I'm not sure I understood what you meant by Petal using run-time includes. I would 
have thought that METAL was basically what I was asking for in a previous email 
(i.e., expressions). By run-time includes, do you mean adding new modules which 
can do encoding via the ":ucfirst title" type syntax?

William


On 25 Jul 2002 at 16:01, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> > Thinking about new features....are you ever considering doing a complete
> > implementation of the TAL specs? I don't really know much about them but
> > you mentioned that Petal implements only a subset right now. Maybe that's
> > all we'll ever need...
> 
> Well, it's even worse than that, I said that Petal is INSPIRED from TAL.
> It's probably more a superset rather than a subset...
> 
> * TAL does not feature $variable or $encode:variable
> 
> * TAL does not feature <?tal:var name="foo"?>
> 
> * TAL does not feature modifiers (i.e. :encode)
> 
> * TAL uses '/' as the inflexion operator. Petal uses '.' because it's
>   what's being used by template toolkit and the '.' is going to replace the
>   '->' in Perl 6.
> 
> * TAL has a special macro language (called METAL, for Macro Extension
>   for TAL), Petal uses run-time includes instead. METAL looks really
>   smoked, I'll have to take a long look at it!
> 
> I am looking forward to make Petal as close as TAL when possible, but
> when I think something's really bonkers (like the '/' issue) then I
> might as well leave it away :-)
> 
> Cheers,
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