RE: escaping colon character in references

["Wannheden, Knut" <kn...@paranor.ch>]

> 
> Wannheden, Knut wrote:
> > OTOH I think it would be nice if Velocity treated a ${x:y} 
> the same way as
> > an undefined reference.  I.e. leave as is.  But that would 
> probably not be a
> > good idea for a lot of other reasons...
> 
> This sounds like a bug as Velocity should ignore any 
> references it can't 
> evaluate.
> 

The problem is that a ParseErrorException is thrown as Velocity doesn't
allow colon characters in identifiers.  But I guess the point is arguable.
Is ${foo} a reference if the variable "foo" isn't defined in the context?
It isn't treated like one, as it results in the text "${foo}".  So how about
${x:y} then?

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knut