Rhesa Rozendaal has joined me to hack on adding TT's magic dot notation to HTML::Template. He added the ability to mix and match method calls and hash references at each level of of the dot notation, as well as supporting method calls with basic date formatting.
I'm working on gettings things to work inside of TMPL_LOOP. Soon we'll need to benchmark our work see if these additional features add much performance penalty.
We could use more collaborators to help flesh out the H::T plugin system, designing and documenting hooks to go in new() and output() for example.
See previous journal entries for more details and a source code repo location.