[Templates] passing positional arguments to MACROs

[Bill Moseley]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:14:19PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I'm currently trying to pass some arbitrary values (basically a list) 
> through a macro:
> 
> [% MACRO mt(msg) GET c.maketext(msg) %]
> 
> [% mt("Hello %1", c.user.name %]
> [% mt("%1 does %2", 'foo', 'bar' %]
> 
> The problem ist that the above macro definition does not work like this. 
> Using named parameters seems cumbersom. One alternative would be to pass 
> the params in as an arrayref:
> 
> [% mt("%1 does %2", ['foo', 'bar'] %]

Yes that's what I do, basically.

I have a macro loc() that I use like this when it's simple text:

    loc( 'Hello world' );

And then when I need to pass parameters I do this:

    loc( ['Hello [_1]', 'world' ] );


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Bill Moseley
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