This is the long-promised update of Text::Template. It is actually a complete rewrite. The new version delivers better functionality but is only 2/3 as long, which I think is a good sign. It is supposed to be 100% backward-compatible with the previous versions. With one cosmetic change, it passes the test suite that the previous versions passed. New features: * Better argument syntax * At least twice as fast * Better support for filling out the same template more than once * More convenience functions In particular, the parser is much better and simpler, and once a template is parsed, the parsed version is stored so that it needn't be parsed again. Questions or comments should be addressed to mjd-perl-template@plover.com. You can get the most recent version, new, comments, and other collateral information from .