Subject: Re: automatically generating node support functions
To: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:04:04 +0200
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On 12.10.21 03:06, Corey Huinker wrote:
>     build support and made the Perl code more portable, so that the cfbot
>     doesn't have to be sad.
> 
> 
> Was this also the reason for doing the output with print statements 
> rather than using one of the templating libraries? I'm mostly just 
> curious, and certainly don't want it to get in the way of working code.

Unless there is a templating library that ships with Perl (>= 5.8.3, 
apparently now), this seems impractical.