#Changes and TODO

[TODO] 2012-????-?? / 0.5.0

• [TODO] Wrap fn/evaluator invocation exceptions with Basil template info
  • originating from Quiddity (due to wrong number/type of args)
  • originating from user-supplied fns/evaluators/values
• [TODO] Nested template sections
• [TODO] Template distribution mechanism
• [TODO] Investigate abstracting out string concatenation
  • Auto-select efficient JVM/CLJS specific concatenation
  • Use java.lang.StringBuilder on the JVM
  • See https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Differences-from-Clojure
  • Use something like this for CLJS (see 'Host Interop' section at above URL)

  (let [sb (goog.string.StringBuffer. "hello, ")]
    (.append sb "world")
    (.toString sb))

• [TODO] Filter fns for reversing HTML entities

2013-June-24 / 0.4.1

• Fix issue where missing file did not lead to a meaningful error message

2012-October-16 / 0.4.0

• Common cached-group feature
• Update dependencies
  • Quiddity 0.2.0
  • clip-test 0.2.0

2012-August-30 / 0.3.0

• ClojureScript support (via clip-test)
• Use Quiddity to eval slots
• Update context built-ins (replace conditionals with Quiddity built-ins)

2012-August-21 / 0.2.0

• Streamlined filter-fns for HTML generation, esp collections
• Library functions for 'locals scope'
• Error reporting must throw exception by default
  • implicitly uses JVM/CLJS error-handler
• New API basil.public[-cljs]

2012-August-08 / 0.1.0

• Template with slots
• Parse/compile and Render are separate
• Pluggable error reporting
• Model
• Filter functions
• Slot features
  • attributes <% name %>
  • literals <% "Number" 1 "String" "Joe Walker" "Keyword" :male %>
  • filter calls <% (second name) %>
• Template Groups and "Include"
• JVM specific API for template groups
• Collection literals - vectors, sets, maps
• Cache compiled templates (re-load only if modified)
• HTML entities (escaping HTML to avoid XSS)