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zimpenfish on Feb 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016

Perl's Template Toolkit has had this feature since at least 2001 (and I remember it being available before that but my googlefu is failing me right now.)

cf http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/tt2.html

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masklinn on Feb 3, 2016 [–]

Nice, thanks for the history lesson. Now I wonder whether Armin Ronacher got it from there or independently reinvented it.

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