[stringtemplate-interest] Dynamic binding of templates?

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

Also, am I right from my scanning of docs that interfaces aren't around 
anymore in ST4? If so, what's the reasoning behind that?

On 05/06/2011 13:12, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 12:55, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>> I want the extension templates to actually be satisfying some abstract
>> interface and be called by the core templates. So a core template might
>> only know that it's going to invoke 'some item template', and then it
>> will invoke a specific template that was not even conceived off at the
>> time the core template was written. The immediate idea that occurs to me
>> is if it were possible to pass a template reference as a parameter and
>> invoke it, but that would be kind of awkward and still hard to use, as
>> it would have to be passed down through any external templates (although
>> it could be deeper in a data structure, so it's possible - say that the
>> core template just receives a list of items, and the template reference
>> is a member of the item data structure, and so forth - maybe this could
>> be done through invoking a 'getOutput' method on the item that invokes
>> its own template, which may then invoke core templates perhaps, and then
>> is just used as a string for output). Is anything like this possible?
>
> And as I scan docs I can see that this element can be handled by the
> syntax<(expr)(argument-list)>... that's embarassing... but thoughts and
> ideas on the whole lot are still welcome.
>
> Sam
>
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