[wp-hackers] echo and return

[Brian Meidell]

The problem still remains that while purely returning functions can be 
used for echoing, purely echoing functions can't be used for returning.

I'll stop beating this dead horse now.

/Brian

Alex wrote:

>Could it be agreed that the template tags just need to be polished a
>little bit (namewise)?
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>The 'templates' are afterall, PHP scripts. If they were parsed by WP,
>this would be a different monster. If they will remain PHP and not a
>proprietary WP-parsed format, then they should do so in the most
>simplistic and consistant manner. Unless it's adding extended
>functionality (error handling), encapsulation doesn't simplify code
>that's going to require learning and documentation in the first place.
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>Documentation and consistancy should be all that's needed.
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