Template mixins: Why is the decision to mixin made at the call site?

[Ary Borenszweig]

div0 wrote:
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> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> div0 wrote:
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>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM, div0<div0 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>>>> That's what he's suggesting, and it does make sense.  When you write a
>>>> template, *either* it's meant to be used as a mixin, *or* it's meant
>>>> to be used some other way.  Mixin in a template that wasn't meant to
>>>> be a mixin or vice versa usually makes no sense.
>>> Hmmm.
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>>> Not convinced by that argument, I can think of good reasons to use a
>>> template as both.
>> Can you provide an example?
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> Yeah, but it's Friday night, I'm drinking beer now. :o
> I'll do it tomorrow.
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> Bills response is the start of it though.

Ah, it's ok, I saw Bill's answer later.