[Catalyst] Program the logic

[Matt S Trout]

Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
>> Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
>>> That involves doing bad things such as using c.param() from the View
>>> but it really was the only practical way (i.e. DRY) I could think of.
>>> So, any suggestions are welcome. ;-)
>> No, it's the best separation of concerns, I think. The trick is to make the
>> View smarter, which is a hard problem for webapps because of the degree of
>> flexibility in styling required (ASP.Net has great shiny components, but any
>> ASP.Net app looks like an ASP.Net app). Encapsulating the c.param bits in a TT
>> plugin or three might be a good halfway measure.
> 
> I couldn't really get the point of your ASP.Net analogy nor could I
> imagine how to encapsulate c.param() bits in some TT plugins (well,
> actually, I could think of aliasing c.param() to param() but this
> probably wasn't what you meant). So, could you please elaborate on
> this?

Template::Plugin::Class will load an arbitrary class. Why not have a plugin 
that grabs $c from the context and hides logic for the view code?

Or a set of subrefs put into the stash, or whatever ...

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