[html-template-devel] Re: Easier way to fill tmpl_var environment?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:30:44 +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:

Not for me. The design goal of HTML-TEMPLATE is to be as simple as possible - the idea is that the people working on the HTML don't have to learn yet another programming language.

I don't understand why you can't achieve what you want within Lisp, something like

(fill-and-print-template "<!-- tmpl_loop ... -->" (my-function a))

where MY-FUNCTION builds and returns the structure you need.

Yes, you are right. That is what I ended up doing anyway. I have this nagging feeling that my-function should be generated somehow.