RE: [Templates] TT in callback

> So for my vote, INCLUDE localises, PROCESS doesn't.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Simon Matthews wrote:

> So for my vote, INCLUDE localises, PROCESS doesn't.
>
> That way things will transfer from TT2 to TT3 far easier.

That would be consistent between versions, but I believe Perrin's original
point (correct me if I'm wrong Perrin) was that the current naming causes
confusion because it's not intuitive as to which localizes and which does
not, and because of that, people end up using INCLUDE instead of PROCESS
in many cases where localizing is not needed.

When I first started using TT I had the same confusion (still do if I'm
not paying attention) - coming from a background in C/C++ programming I
think of an "include" file as something that gets pasted inline into
another file, as if it were part of the original file to start with (i.e.
not localized), where "process" to me implies something more like a
subroutine or function call (where I can control the scoping).

So even with Andy's fix to make the localization done by INCLUDE less of a
performance hit (which sounds very cool), it might still be worth
considering making INCLUDE default to not localize, or add some syntax to
allow the user explicitly control the variable scope.

Larry Leszczynski

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