The Rc Template Language

Implemented by Kris, thanks!

Basic syntax:

• Lines starting with % are executed as rc commands, the resulting output is inserted in the document.
• use %{ and %} to delimit multi line sections of rc code (note the lack of space between % and { or }!
• To ‘inline’ the value of an environment variable use %($my_var%)

That is basically it!

For further documentation on rc see:

• The rc(1) man page from Plan 9.
• The rc shell paper by Tom Duff.

Examples

Loops

<ul>
% for(i in a b c) {
%   echo '<li>'$i'</li>'
% }
</uL>

Can also be writen as:

<ul>
%{
for(i in a b c) {
   echo '<li>'$i'</li>'
}
%}
</uL>

and is equivalent to:

<ul>
% for(i in a b c) {
<li>%($i%)</li>
% }
</uL>

All three code examples result in this output:

<ul>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
<li>c</li>
</ul>

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