[stringtemplate-interest] Limited control flow with stringtemplate - by design?

[Laurent Vaucher]

>
> <if(number==SOMETHING)>blah<else>etc<endif>
>
> Is this possible? I'd rather use integral constants/enumerations  
> rather
> than booleans...

   This is BAD!!! Oh, I'm not taking a religious or philosophical  
position, just repeating what I have read from the 'academic'   
article about StringTemplate (http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/ 
mvc.templates.pdf). One of the goals of the library is to enforce  
strict model-view separation by voluntarily making the template  
language non-Turing-complete. You're not supposed to compute things  
that the model part did not make explicitly available to the view  
part. You might like it or not, but that's the way of StringTemplate.

   Being a (not yet completely desintoxicated) JSP addict and using a  
lot of Java inside pages, I can understand the initial frustration.


Laurent.