TEtekronis·Jun 12, 2022
Thanks for making this. Maybe add an option that also exposes additional template functions from sprig: https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig
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Useful template functions for Go templates.
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4 sourcesThey may refer to the definitive shortage of built-in functions. The template engine itself only provides the bare minimum. That's usually not a problem because of template function libraries like https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig
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1 points · Open discussionActually you can do function calls on Go templates [1], and indeed this is what is done in practice. Libraries got written to do this, and badly integrated [2].
You will quickly find if you use this that it's in fact worse: go templates have LISP syntax. A set of atoms, specified in reverse Polish notation, doing function application to all but the first atom.
[1] https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#Template.Funcs
[2] https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig
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