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Thanks a lot for the feedback, the includes is definitely a nice addition, and honestly, partials were an afterthought for me, definitely needs work :/ Will hopefully get something in there more flexible and intuitive.

As for a default delimiter name, would love any suggestions. I went with {build{ because 1. I didn't have time to think about it too long, and 2. it needed to be different than the doT default.

Actually, since it is specific to language comment formats maybe something as simple as:

<!--{=foo}-->
/*{=foo}*/
#{=foo}#

I can't think of any reason these would collide with post built templates. I think the differentiation is pretty clear.

One more suggestion to myself, was to add a configuration that can be loaded from the cwd, or passed as a parameter. This way many more advanced augmentations will be allowed such as custom types, changing default types, and of course predefining any number of defs, vars, and partials.

Thanks again!

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Ok, so the first thing first was to shorten the default delimiters, which I went with my previous suggestion to myself.
2nd - Thing on my priority list is to simplify def object passage.
3rd - Allow for a custom module argument containing all script options, and default def object (containing partials, templates).
4th - Have a separate build preprocess that actually compiles templates into multiple modules, or one big concatenated module, with optional namespaces.

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I just realized #{var}# is incompatible with regular expressions in some languages, namely Ruby.

I need a better delimiter for either just Ruby, or in general. I'm still skeptical in using #{{var}}# because I am worried it will conflict with runtime templates using doT default delimiters.

Any suggestions here?

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I guess the only way to see if #{{var}}# will conflict with anything is to try it ;)

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About 4th point - just to make sure we are on the same page - given a template (that may use sub-templates) the output would be a JavaScript module that can be included in projects.
#{{ would conflict with default evaluation {{ I guess. What about (| and |)?

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