Re: extending <% | %>

> The first is that there can be multiple |s in a substitution, ...
> I called these 'filters', even though that's kind of an overloaded
> word now (so I'm open to suggestions).

Something jogged my mind back to a book I scanned a while ago...
_Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales_ by Langer and Kreft

There seems to be, maybe in my warped sense, an analogy between
what is going on in mason and iostreams. The have a diagram:

  program
  ,--^-----------------,
  |  |formatting layer | iostreams
  |  |transport layer  |
  |__v_________________/
  ext dev

which has filters, traits, etc.

Maybe some of the arch and terminology is appropriate. Maybe
some of the abstractions that have developed for iostreams,
may be a design patterns appropriate for next-gen mason.
No re-invention of wheel.

Am I way off on a tangent?

..Otto


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