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+
+Text::Template v1.46
+
+This is a library for generating form letters, building HTML pages, or
+filling in templates generally. A `template' is a piece of text that
+has little Perl programs embedded in it here and there. When you
+`fill in' a template, you evaluate the little programs and replace
+them with their values.
+
+Here's an example of a template:
+
+ Dear {$title} {$lastname},
+
+ It has come to our attention that you are delinquent in your
+ {$monthname[$last_paid_month]} payment. Please remit
+ ${sprintf("%.2f", $amount)} immediately, or your patellae may
+ be needlessly endangered.
+
+ Love,
+
+ Mark "{nickname(rand 20)}" Dominus
+
+
+The result of filling in this template is a string, which might look
+something like this:
+
+ Dear Mr. Gates,
+
+ It has come to our attention that you are delinquent in your
+ February payment. Please remit
+ $392.12 immediately, or your patellae may
+ be needlessly endangered.
+
+
+ Love,
+
+ Mark "Vizopteryx" Dominus
+
+You can store a template in a file outside your program. People can
+modify the template without modifying the program. You can separate
+the formatting details from the main code, and put the formatting
+parts of the program into the template. That prevents code bloat and
+encourages functional separation.
+
+You can fill in the template in a `Safe' compartment. This means that
+if you don't trust the person who wrote the code in the template, you
+won't have to worry that they are tampering with your program when you
+execute it.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Text::Template was originally released some time in late 1995 or early
+1996. After three years of study and investigation, I rewrote it from
+scratch in January 1999. The new version, 1.0, was much faster,
+delivered better functionality and was almost 100% backward-compatible
+with the previous beta versions.
+
+I have added a number of useful features and conveniences since the
+1.0 release, while still retaining backward compatibility. With one
+merely cosmetic change, the current version of Text::Template passes
+the test suite that the old beta versions passed.
+
+Questions or comments should be addressed to
+mjd-perl-template+@plover.com. This address goes directly to me, and
+not to anyone else; it is not a mailing list address.
+
+To receive occasional announcements of new versions of T::T, send an
+empty note to mjd-perl-template-request@plover.com. This mailing list
+is not for discussion; it is for announcements only. Therefore, there
+is no address for sending messages to the list.
+
+You can get the most recent version of Text::Template, news, comments,
+and other collateral information from
+<URL:http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/Template/>.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.46 since v1.44:
+
+ Thanks to Rik Signes, there is a new
+ Text::Template->append_text_to_output method, which
+ Text::Template always uses whenever it wants to emit output.
+ You can subclass this to get control over the output, for
+ example for postprocessing.
+
+ A spurious warning is no longer emitted when the TYPE
+ parameter to ->new is omitted.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.44 since v1.43:
+
+This is a maintentance release. There are no feature changes.
+
+ _scrubpkg, which was responsible for eptying out temporary
+ packages after the module had done with them, wasn't always
+ working; the result was memory-leaks in long-running
+ applications. This should be fixed now, and there is a test
+ in the test suite for it.
+
+ Minor changes to the test suite to prevent spurious errors.
+
+ Minor documentation changes.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.43 since v1.42:
+
+ The ->new method now fails immediately and sets
+ $Text::Template::ERROR if the file that is named by a filename
+ argument does not exist or cannot be opened for some other
+ reason. Formerly, the constructor would succeed and the
+ ->fill_in call would fail.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.42 since v1.41:
+
+This is a maintentance release. There are no feature changes.
+
+ Fixed a bug relating to use of UNTAINT under perl 5.005_03 and
+ possibly other versions.
+
+ Taint-related tests are now more comprehensive.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.41 since v1.40:
+
+This is a maintentance release. There are no feature changes.
+
+ Tests now work correctly on Windows systems and possibly on
+ other non-unix systems.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.40 since v1.31:
+
+ New UNTAINT option tells the module that it is safe to 'eval'
+ code even though it has come from a file or filehandle.
+
+ Code added to prevent memory leaks when filling many
+ templates. Thanks to Itamar Almeida de Carvalho.
+
+ Bug fix: $OUT was not correctly initialized when used in
+ conjunction with SAFE.
+
+ You may now use a glob ref when passing a filehandle to the
+ ->new funcion. Formerly, a glob was reuqired.
+
+ New subclass: Text::Template::Preprocess. Just like
+ Text::Template, but you may supply a PREPROCESS option in the
+ constructor or the fill_in call; this is a function which
+ receives each code fragment prior to evaluation, and which may
+ modify and return the fragment; the modified fragment is what
+ is evaluated.
+
+ Error messages passed to BROKEN subroutines will now report
+ the correct line number of the template at which the error
+ occurred:
+
+ Illegal division by zero at template line 37.
+
+ If the template comes from a file, the filename will be
+ reported as well:
+
+ Illegal division by zero at catalog.tmpl line 37.
+
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
+
+ The format of the default error message has changed. It used
+ to look like:
+
+ Program fragment at line 30 delivered error ``Illegal division by zero''
+
+ It now looks like:
+
+ Program fragment delivered error ``Illegal division by zero at catalog.tmpl line 37''
+
+ Note that the default message used to report the line number
+ at which the program fragment began; it now reports the line
+ number at which the error actually occurred.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.31 since v1.23:
+
+ Just bug fixes---fill_in_string was failing. Thanks to
+ Donald L. Greer Jr. for the test case.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.23 since v1.22:
+
+ Small bug fix: DELIMITER and other arguments were being
+ ignored in calls to fill_in_file and fill_this_in. (Thanks to
+ Jonathan Roy for reporting this.)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.22 since v1.20:
+
+ You can now specify that certain Perl statements be prepended
+ to the beginning of every program fragment in a template,
+ either per template, or for all templates, or for the duration
+ of only one call to fill_in. This is useful, for example, if
+ you want to enable `strict' checks in your templates but you
+ don't want to manually add `use strict' to the front of every
+ program fragment everywhere.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in v1.20 since v1.12:
+
+ You can now specify that the program fragment delimiters are
+ strings other than { and }. This has three interesting
+ effects: First, it changes the delimiter strings. Second, it
+ disables the special meaning of \, so you have to be really,
+ really sure that the delimiters will not appear in your
+ templates. And third, because of the simplifications
+ introduced by the elimination of \ processing, template
+ parsing is 20-25% faster.
+
+ See the manual section on `Alternative Delimiters'.
+
+ Fixed bug having to do with undefined values in HASH options.
+ In particular, Text::Template no longer generates a warning if
+ you try to give a variable an undefined value.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.12 since v1.11:
+
+ I forgot to say that Text::Template ISA Exporter, so the
+ exported functions never got exported. Duhhh!
+
+ Template TYPEs are now case-insensitive. The `new' method now
+ diagnoses attempts to use an invalid TYPE.
+
+ More tests for these things.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.11 since v1.10:
+
+ Fixed a bug in the way backslashes were processed. The 1.10
+ behavior was incompatible with the beta versions and was also
+ inconvenient. (`\n' in templates was replaced with `n' before
+ it was given to Perl for evaluation.) The new behavior is
+ also incompatible with the beta versions, but it is only a
+ little bit incompatible, and it is probbaly better.
+
+ Documentation for the new behavior, and tests for the bug.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.10 since v1.03:
+
+ New OUTPUT option delivers template results directly to a
+ filehandle instead of making them into a string. Saves space
+ and time.
+
+ PACKAGE and HASH now work intelligently with SAFE.
+
+ Fragments may now output data directly to the template, rather
+ than having to arrange to return it as a return value at the
+ end. This means that where you used to have to write this:
+
+ { my $blist = '';
+ foreach $i (@items) {
+ $blist .= qq{ * $i\n};
+ }
+ $blist;
+ }
+
+ You can now write this instead, because $OUT is special.
+
+ { foreach $i (@items) {
+ $OUT.= " * $i\n";
+ }
+ }
+
+ (`A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.')
+
+ Fixed some small bugs. Worked around a bug in Perl that does
+ the wrong thing with $x = <Y> when $x contains a glob.
+
+ More documentation. Errors fixed.
+
+ Lots more tests.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+What's new in v1.03 since v1.0:
+
+ Code added to support HASH option to fill_in.
+ (Incl. `_gensym' function.)
+
+ Documentation for HASH.
+
+ New test file for HASH.
+
+ Note about failure of lexical variables to propagate into
+ templates. Why does this surprise people?
+
+ Bug fix: program fragments are evaluated in an environment with
+ `no strict' by default. Otherwise, you get a lot of `Global
+ symbol "$v" requires explicit package name' failures. Why didn't
+ the test program pick this up? Because the only variable the test
+ program ever used was `$a', which is exempt. Duhhhhh.
+
+ Fixed the test program.
+
+ Various minor documentation fixes.
+
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Improvements of 1.0 over the old 0.1beta:
+
+New features:
+
+ At least twice as fast
+
+ Better support for filling out the same template more than once
+
+ Now supports evaluation of program fragments in Safe
+ compartments. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
+
+ Better argument syntax
+
+ More convenience functions
+
+ The parser is much better and simpler.
+
+ Once a template is parsed, the parsed version is stored so that
+ it needn't be parsed again.
+
+ BROKEN function behavior is rationalized. You can now pass an
+ arbitrary argument to your BROKEN function, or return a value
+ from it to the main program.
+
+ Documentation overhauled.
+
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