Re: [CGILua 5.0b2] Possible bug and change request

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <ventonegro@...>]

Hi André,

Andre Carregal wrote:

> Well, it depends on how you create "page.lp". If it does not generate any
> HTML per se, you can decide on different output pages from your "lib.lua".
> For example (untested):
>
> Would that work for you?
>  

    This will probably do, yes. I think this is the way to go, if I 
encounter any problems I'll let you know. :-)

> I assume that would be the "{section ...}" construct, right? To be sincere
> they look a lot like a loop for me, but you can think in the following
> Smarty excerpt
>  

    Maybe I'm being picky here, but something like

{section name=count loop=$users}


is more declarative than something like

<% for user in users() do %>


which is more imperative. For me it doesn't matter, but the declarative 
syntax may be easier for non-programmer designers. And would be more 
MVC-ish, what if people decide to not implement it with iterators in the 
future? Anyway I am fine with the current syntax, I wasn't asking to 
change it, I was just trying to make a point.

> This is the kind of things that we are studying for the new context-aware
> templates. One could do something like
>
> users = {{name="a", phone="123"}, {name="b", phone="456"}}
> cgilua.includehtml("page.lp", {users = users})
>
> and CGILua would create the "users()" iterator automagically. We still have
> to iron out the details, but it's doable.
>  

    Seems to be good stuff, I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the good 
work.

Cheers,

-alex