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* Aaron Crane <hateful@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx> [2006-06-27 14:15]: > I can't conceive of any situation in which it would be > desirable behaviour, It's useful if you want to redisplay an improperly filled out form to the user. In that case the values you provide would be merely defaults and CGI.pm would take care of stickiness for you. I've actually found it useful on about two occasions. The fact that there's no way to globally turn off this behaviour is absolutely hateful, however. At first I relied on calling CGI.pm's routines from my TT2 templates to generate my form elements, because that's much nicer than typing out the entire form element HTML every time, particularly for the complex ones like select boxes. Well, it *would* be much nicer -- if the stickiness was easy to turn off. HATE. It would also help if TT2 was at all useful at manipulating data structures, because CGI.pm's routines sometimes have somewhat peculiar preferences. Alas, data structure manipulation in TT2 is about as powerful as in the Bourne shell. Crippled template mini languages: a hate for another day. Aaaaargh. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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