[stringtemplate-interest] Formal parameters in web templates

Fri Oct 30 12:58:26 PDT 2009

Hi Terr
Is there an estimate when st4 will be feature complete ?
Bugs does not matter :) I'll use it anyway because that is a matter of time
:)

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Ran Tavory <rantav at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose I'll wait for v4 then, thanks for the replies.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ran,
>>
>> You've asked 2 questions actually :)
>>
>> 1. Define formal args for nongroup file templates: Coming in STv4. All
>> templates will require formal args even in separate files.
>>
>> 2. Specifying cardinality of parameters (required, optional,
>> multi-valued).  It's somethng I've considered for years and have commented
>> out in the code. ;)  I'm still deciding about it's use for STv4.
>>
>> As for types, I think types would tie templtes too closely to the model.
>>  But, i understand the desire for them.
>>
>> Ter
>> On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Ran Tavory wrote:
>>
>> A newbe question: Is it possible to define the list of formal parameters
>> in a template where my use case would be for a web page?
>>
>> For example, in this template:
>>
>> layout.st
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>$title$</title>
>> <body>
>> $banner()$
>> <hr>
>> $body()$
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>>
>> I'd like to say that *$title$* is a required parameter. Would even be
>> better if types can be enforced, such as String, Number, Date, List of x
>> etc, but even without static typing, simply listing the formal arguments the
>> template expects would be great.
>> Thanks!
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