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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Richard Harding
<rick.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> I was looking through the documentation of the overall mustache spec vs any
> implementation:
>
> http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html
>
> I don't see any other way than going the route of defining a lambda and
> adding it to the model instances as you passed them in to render.
>
> It does look like the Ruby implementation has the concept of helpers, and
> checking the pystache code it looks like it has some ability to create
> Modifiers? Is this what you're referring to?

Ah yes, I see. I was talking about Modifiers indeed, and I see the closure bit.

-Rob