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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by Jon Scott Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com> on 2002/02/14 20:51:22 UTC
Re: cvs commit:
jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node
ASTNotNode.java
on 2/14/02 11:40 AM, "geirm@apache.org" <ge...@apache.org> wrote:
> geirm 02/02/14 11:40:00
>
> Modified: src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node
> ASTNotNode.java
> Log:
> Fix for bug reported by Chris Rousseau <Ch...@timerasolutions.com>
>
> where
>
> #set($foo = !$bar )
>
> wouldn't work. I don't think there was ever a reson for not letting
> it be the logical compliment...
Ok, I have a question here:
What if $bar resolves to null? What is the ! of null? Heck, what is the
result of !$bar even if $bar returns a non null? Is it a Boolean?
I think that this syntax is rather confusing and very Perl'ish.
-jon
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Re: cvs commit:
jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node
ASTNotNode.java
Posted by "Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>.
On 2/14/02 2:51 PM, "Jon Scott Stevens" <jo...@latchkey.com> wrote:
> on 2/14/02 11:40 AM, "geirm@apache.org" <ge...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> geirm 02/02/14 11:40:00
>>
>> Modified: src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node
>> ASTNotNode.java
>> Log:
>> Fix for bug reported by Chris Rousseau <Ch...@timerasolutions.com>
>>
>> where
>>
>> #set($foo = !$bar )
>>
>> wouldn't work. I don't think there was ever a reson for not letting
>> it be the logical compliment...
>
> Ok, I have a question here:
>
> What if $bar resolves to null? What is the ! of null? Heck, what is the
> result of !$bar even if $bar returns a non null? Is it a Boolean?
A null is 'false' in VTL. I don¹t really like it, but we should be
consistent.
> I think that this syntax is rather confusing and very Perl'ish.
You bet.
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