Smarty

[vorapoap]

I just think that this would be more convenient.
Another thing that you won't be able to use a parameter with name = "name" since name is a parameter for {call ...}

So why create a complexity of {call name="xxx" ...} if we can do {xxx}

[U.Tews]

{call name="xxx" ...} is necessary if you want to call a template function which is defined external in an subtemplate.

The compiler can not know otherwise that {xxx} should compile into a template function call.

name can anyway not be a parameter as it's also the attribute for the function name at {function} definition.

[vorapoap]

Hmm. I guess that this is because that Smarty does only a single phase template compilation... If for any reasons in the future, Smarty will go for double phases, please consider this.

Thank you

[elpmis]

Have you tried to use eval to force compiling once again?

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.function.eval.tpl

[U.Tews]