Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Chained method calls

[email protected] (Marcus Bointon) Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:44:03 +0100
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On 3 Jan 2008, at 19:11, Dave Mittner wrote:

> I personally see this opening more doors than it would cause problems,
> myself. It's adding optional support that, in its absence, might  
> require
> people to assign temporary Smarty variables- an ugly process in and of
> itself.

I agree with that - whenever I do an assign it makes me feel somehow  
grubby...

Another aspect is that chained method calls are already very commonly  
used in Javascript libraries (particularly in JQuery, not so much with  
Prototype), so those on the template side are fairly likely to have  
encountered it.

Marcus
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