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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Richard Harding
<rick.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, you are correct. This then gets into why some of us aren't the biggest
> fans of Mustache as a template language. A very similar language with
> similar syntax is Handlebars. The nice thing about handlebars is that it
> supports the idea of helpers.
>
> http://handlebarsjs.com/#helpers
>
> If you follow that idea you could see writing a json_dateparse helper that
> you could register and use in your template

I think that that is a quirk of moustache.js, as pystache supports
external helpers (and moustache started in ruby, so ... I suspect
in-context helpers is a bogon :)

-Rob