[stringtemplate-interest] native (java) templates

[Anton Tagunov]

Guys, not a committer, still..

Anton Tagunov>          link(href) ::= "<a href='$href.url()$'>$href.html()</a>"

Andrew Goodnough>  In your example you set the "href" parameter to your
Andrew Goodnough>  Href bean, which has methods getUrl() and getHtml() which return an encoded string.

Sure. But we need dozen string .html() encoded.

Terence Parr> We could use a <fill()> built-in function that would fill until the end of line.

Nice. But desperate to forsee every need like this.

atagunov>      we've got a functional language.
atagunov>      we need to hook Java functions
atagunov>      side effects would be forbidden.

Terence Parr> "impossible" is better than "forbidden"

Granted. But XYZ() methods are already "possible".
Why not go for java transformation functions?

Regards, Anton Tagunov