After some clarification I restate my question as follows.
In a jquery template
I've got sth. messy like this to use a return value of a function
<p class="hidden">${$data.score = getScore(results)}</p>
{{tmpl(homeTeam, {score: score}) "#scoreTemplate"}}
Can this be simplified - like the following, which unfortunately doesn't do the trick?
{{tmpl(homeTeam, {score: getScore(results)}) "#scoreTemplate"}}
Many thanks,
Robson