Inject meta-data from the partial

[RobLoach]

Usually when building a Partial, you have something like:

Hello <%=@name or 'World'%>
Welcome to <%= @site?.name or 'My Site' %>

Now, what if you could inject meta-data to the document from the Partial itself?

---
someData: "Oh, yes please."

---
Hello <%=@name or 'World'%>
Welcome to <%= @site?.name or 'My Site' %>

Then calling @partial('mypartial') would manipulate the source document's meta-data.

[balupton]

Interesting... Is there a real-world use case / demand for this?

[RobLoach]

Would've solved a problem I was running into, but then I switched to using a layout for it instead. It's still an idea, not entirely sure how feasible it is, but an idea, no less.