Why learn a whole new language for templating when you already know a perfectly good one?
You're kicking in my open doors. Eventually my first meditation here was about the same - compiled templates converted into coderefs - and I've been discouraged, wrote a followup, packaged AutoReloader for my own needs, uploaded it to CPAN and moved to other things.
It looks like if ideas are carried out by the right people, they have a better chance.
Looking into your module. Thanks.
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
