[SUGGESTION]

[Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>]

I've noticed code like:


   <c:if test="${foo == null}">   [ok, I prolly have the syntax wrong].

This seems quite cryptic when JSP and JSTL are doing their best to hide
cryptic things like 'null'. Could there be:

<c:if exists="foo">  instead?


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Re: [SUGGESTION]

[Shawn Bayern <ba...@essentially.net>]

Hi again, Henri,

For general suggestions, it's best to mail

 jsr-52-comments@jcp.org

so that they get recorded officially.  I'm personally happy to discuss any
issues at length on this list -- as you can probably tell :-) -- but it's
good to make sure to register your feedback officially too.

As for this particular comment, it's mostly a matter of syntactic taste.  
The actual handling of null (versus "") is, I believe, still being
debated.

Shawn

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Henri Yandell wrote:

> I've noticed code like:
> 
> 
>    <c:if test="${foo == null}">   [ok, I prolly have the syntax wrong].
> 
> This seems quite cryptic when JSP and JSTL are doing their best to hide
> cryptic things like 'null'. Could there be:
> 
> <c:if exists="foo">  instead?
> 
> 
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