[Petal] Pental Internals

[William McKee]

Hi Lucas,

I would second your suggestion but amend it a bit knowing how busy Jean-Michel is 
at the moment ;->. First I'd suggest to you to read the code. It's clear and not too 
difficult to figure out what's happening. What I think would be helpful is a roadmap 
of how a template gets read, parsed and filled out. From what Jean-Michel has told 
me, it sounds pretty straight-forward once you see the flow.

As for error messages, it would be helpful if Petal was a bit more friendly in this 
regard. For instance, when I use taintmode in my Perl scripts and include a file 
without taintmode turned on, I invariably exit my script prematurely without a notice 
that it occurred while including a file (Jean-Michel: perhaps it'd be good to take the 
taintmode from the new command and apply that to all includes). 

Also, when I have an error in my template, it'd be helpful if Petal could indicate 
where that error occurrs in the template so I can find it and fix it. This may be tricky 
b/c, to my understanding, Petal canonicalizes a template before filling it.

Perhaps if you explained what you wanted to do, we could suggest how to do it.

William


On 29 Jul 2002 at 8:54, Lucas Saud wrote:

> hi,
> 
> could you create a document to explain a bit more about Pental Internals?
> this doc will be very very useful in order to make my own modifiers, custom
> features...etc..etc...what do you think?
> 
> SUGESTIONS:
> 
> - examples and more documentation...
> - you could writte all msgs related to errors (used in confess, croak,
> etc...) in one hash...it will let users make and update translations...
> 
> sounds good to me...and for you?
> 
> (sorry for my bad english...i'm from brazil and only speak portugueze...)
> 
> Lucas Marinho
> 
> 


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