Basics

• Text Templating++
• The fundamental building block in Mason is a "component", which can contain text and/or code.
• A very simple component:

% my $who = 'world';
Hello, <% $who %>

• Mason components can contain three things:
• Text (HTML, XML, etc.)
• Code which generates output
• Inline code (loops, if/else, assignments, etc.)
• Plain text is always plain text.