Every Viaweb site has a collection of global variables that control its appearance. They are called global because, by default, they apply to every page. If a template contains an @ followed by a name that is not one of the current object's properties, it will instead refer to the global variable (if any) with that name. For example, this template generates a page we have often seen before, except that the background color will be the value of the global variable background-color (which by default is no color at all).Background () TITLE "Hello Background" BODY background-color @background-color TEXT "Hello, world!"
Since @ looks first at the properties of the current object
and only second at the global variables, you can override a global
variable for any particular object by giving it a property with the
same name. For example, if you give some object a new property called
background-color, then its value will be used instead of
the global variable when a page is generated for that object. |
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