Re: smarty custom functions namespaces

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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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