[stringtemplate-interest] Output formatting issue

[Terence Parr]

On May 25, 2005, at 10:08 PM, jobapply wrote:

>
> Truncate operator is very helpful and it is widely used /with other  
> template
> engines/.
> The actual idea of variable modifiers is not new, e.g you can find  
> truncate
> at
> http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.truncate.php
>
> I mean it is helpful in web-templating, not in code generation ;))
>
> When designer decides to output something in "short" format - he  
> should
> choose the number:40,60 ?
> It depends..
>
> I suggest implementing general modifiers as wrappers that will be  
> attached
> at compile-time (StringTemplate compile into something/no ?)
>

I agree that truncate operators are useful...I'll add to the list to  
think about.  StringTemplate doesn't generate code, it's interpreted. :)

Terence
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