Ah, but there is a subtle albeit crucial difference. PHP started out
as a template language and evolved into a general purpose scripting
one. And once you are at the "general-purpose" level, you can no
longer contain the explosion of possibilities. Smarty may end on the
same route.
-Andrei
On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:56 AM, boots wrote:
--- Andrei Zmievski <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, and that's what scares me about Smarty.
-Andrei
Hi Andrei. I was kidding, you know....but I'm only half-kidding when I
ask what your take is on the famous principle that every language
eventually evolves into Lisp? More seriously, it is good to fight the
feature creep but things like namespaces really have nothing
exclusively to do with PHP or Rasmus' hypothesis.
I think your comment is insightful in that it highlights a critical
point: some people misuse Smarty and try to build business-logic
with a
"template" language. It is reminiscent of how some people misuse PHP
and try to build desktop applications with a "web" languange --
despite
Rasmus' objections to such.
On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:30 AM, boots wrote:
You know full well that PHP does not have namespaces :)
--- Andrei Zmievski <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you people realize that you are proving Rasmus's theorem with
every such thing? I am speaking of "Every template language
evolves
until it turns into PHP".
-Andrei
On Jul 21, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Michael Davey wrote:
Hi,
I've added a crude form of namespaces to my private copy of
Smarty.
A template function like:
{namespace:test}
...causes the test() function in the smarty_function_namespace
class to be called.
I'm planning to use this feature in TikiWiki to provide
accessor-like template functions to access various data:
article::title, article::description and so on. I though that
this
might be of more general use, so here is a patch for this
morning's
CVS snapshot of Smarty.
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