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At the time, this was good:

   printf("%d", 10);

It might not hold up to today's standards, but "good" isn't a constant.

by taeric5 hours ago|

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So, no? You don't have any examples by which to demonstrate what a good templating language is?

You seem to have gone on a tangent that "good" is a general topic in my question. I meant do we have specifically good examples of templates. Surely if we know what good templating syntax is, we can share examples of it? Even if you can't describe it directly.

by 9rx5 hours ago|

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I provided a good template language, at least given what was good at the time it was introduced. As good is necessarily a moving target, one can never really satisfy your request as by the time the submission has round-tripped it is quite possible that what is good has already been redefined.

So, yes, I understand you are trying to call attention to my 'loosey-goosey' usage earlier. But I am saying that when I said "good", it was relative to the temporal position it found itself in.

by taeric5 hours ago|

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Then take my question as, "then what is a good templating example today?"

Dodging the obvious question in favor of discussing if we can make progress... feels less than good faith.

by 9rx5 hours ago|

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I still consider the templating language I shared before, even at the time of this comment, to be good.

But, as recognized earlier, others may find it doesn't hold up to today's standards. "Good" is not only not a constant, but is also subjective. Do I really have to explain the entire universe here? Man.

by taeric4 hours ago|

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You didn't share a templating language, though? You shared an example of a formatting/templating string, but didn't even indicate what level of format string it supported. Such that I don't know if you are sharing C's printf, bash's printf, PHP's... I can presume you don't intend to include CL's FORMAT. Even if I do have a softspot for it, myself.

by 9rx4 hours ago|

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> You shared an example of a formatting/templating string

Which is, you guessed it, a language! Okay, yeah, I didn't dive in so deep as to provide a formal specification for the language, or whatever it is you were hoping for, but if you really want to take this to silly town, I'm going to tell you that what you saw is the only valid input for this language and only specify that, so, maybe, unless you are having fun with this comedy routine (in which case, carry on; I'm certainly still entertained!), you can read between the lines? The question asking if I need to explain the universe was rhetorical, implying that I am not going to do that.

by taeric2 hours ago|

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My question to you, then, is if you think you contributed anything at all to this? Because, yeah, nothing there.

by 9rx2 hours ago|

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Yes, it contributed to my enjoyment. I mean, that is all that can be contributed, fundamentally, so...