Re: Mason 2.0 thoughts

On May 13, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Jesse Vincent wrote:

>
> On May 13, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 May 2007, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>
>> I think we're on basically the same page. I'm just saying that we  
>> can use
>> the syntax we have, but extend it to allow calling subroutines,
>> components, and "named" filters. Now, I don't know exactly how we'd
>> distinguish all of them, but I like the idea.
>
> Unifying filters and CwC is certainly interesting and makes the  
> explanations a lot easier.
> If you're going to allow subroutines as filters, please please  
> please make it just as easy to use a block or a method call on an  
> object.

Would you be ok with a built-in "Apply" filter that takes a  
subroutine? e.g.

<& Apply(sub { tr/a-z/A-Z/ }) |&>
[content]
</&>


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