Ideas for more use of TT

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Sat Sep 28 21:04:00 UTC 2002


A refresher look at the TT manual yielded the following ideas:

Compile Time Constant Folding

http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Variables.html#Compile_Time_Constant_Folding
Should we be using this facility for things like VERSION and all the 
stuff that's always included?

Autoformat/Wrap

http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Autoformat
http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Wrap
Should we be using either of these plugins instead of Text::Format?

Date

http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Date

Should we be using this for the date/time stuff? It delegates to POSIX 
strftime.

GD

I plan to read up on the GD interfaces and maybe use them for reporting, 
or the generic charting module :-)

Gerv




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