[stringtemplate-interest] alternating row colows

[Terence Parr]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Nate wrote:
> Further, I had to create my own servlet based ST framework. It has  
> been
> through a few iterations and will go through yet another when I change
> it to primarily use group files. IMO this should be provided so that
> each person using ST for web development doesn't have to implement it
> from scratch.

Pageforge can help a bit here.

> Lastly, I would like to prepose again as I have done in the past  
> that ST
> needs a rewrite, or at least a non-backwards compatible release.  
> The API
> has grown organically and IMO should be rethought. There are too  
> many ST
> internals exposed. Maintaining such a large public API of a library's
> internals is difficult and becomes messy as development is furthered.
> Hindsight can be used to see how the API as a whole can be reworked,
> with an eye on future features, keeping in mind iterators should  
> not be
> passed around, etc. IMO every application should regularily go through
> iterations like this and from reading ST code it appears to have been
> quite some time.

Agreed.  When I rebuild it in v3 ANTLR not 2.7.7, we can make a break  
perhaps.

Ter