On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> wrote:

On 8/5/10 12:57 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Thanks for the input everyone. I've just pushed the new Hamlet runtime code to github[1]. Instead of using data-object,
> I've created a new datatype: HamletData[2]. Runtime templates support *almost* the entirety of valid Hamlet documents;

Excellent! With the following kludgery I was able to change hamlet files and see the effect immediately. A boon for development. Useful parse errors in the browser too. It's not all smooth of course. Including other hamlets and integrating RT and non-RT hamlets seems a lot of work.

It's true that none of this interoperation will be automatic, but it's possible. Regarding: including other hamlets, you just need to parse them first and then include them in your HamletData. Regarding integrating RT and non-RT: I would say your best bet it to do that via Html (). In other words, apply the template to the URL rendering function, resulting in a Html () value, and then embed that in the template you desire.

For the moment, RT templates are definitely second-class citizens, but if people have ideas of how to improve them, I'd be happy to hear it.

Michael