Re: trouble with stringify

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On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 22:15 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Ahh, but it's so convenient to simply say:
> 
>         [% FOR role IN actor.roles %]
>         [% role.film %] (released in [% role.film.year %])
>         [% END %]
> 
> The first gets the stringified film.  The second uses role.film
> in its object sense to get the rest of the data for that film:
> in this case, the year.

Neat, but I prefer the less sneaky version that just calls
role.film.name to get the name.  Then I don't get confused about which
object the name is in.

- Perrin