RE: [BUG] Struts + Velocity + MathContextTool

[Tim Colson <tc...@cisco.com>]

> Apologies if this has been discussed before... backwater of my brain seems
> to recall something similar perhaps, but can't grasp it.
BTW - I do recall the big bunch of Floating point discussion and such... and
so I pretty much expected the functions to fail in some way, but the weird
things I noticed were in the escaped labels. ;-)
Timo


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RE: [BUG] Struts + Velocity + MathContextTool

[Tim Colson <tc...@cisco.com>]

Asked another way ->

How would I write this plain text in my template without the error?

"Attention Template Designers - do not do this : $math.min(1.5, 2.3) because
it will fail due to floating point numbers. What's a floating point number
and why should you care? That's a different thread. <grin>"

Cheers,
Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Colson [mailto:tcolson@cisco.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: Velocity Users List
> Subject: RE: [BUG] Struts + Velocity + MathContextTool
>
>
> Geir -
> > Because the escaping of references is done at runtime, as you
> > can't tell at
> > parsetime what is a reference, as you need  a context to decide that.
>
> uhh...could you run that through the "dumb-it-down" filter and
> tell me again
> why the escaped \$ in the label doesn't appear to be escaped and in fact
> causes an error?
> <td>\$math.min(345, 765.2)</td><td>$math.min(345, 765)</td>



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RE: [BUG] Struts + Velocity + MathContextTool

[Tim Colson <tc...@cisco.com>]

Geir -
> Because the escaping of references is done at runtime, as you
> can't tell at
> parsetime what is a reference, as you need  a context to decide that.

uhh...could you run that through the "dumb-it-down" filter and tell me again
why the escaped \$ in the label doesn't appear to be escaped and in fact
causes an error?
<td>\$math.min(345, 765.2)</td><td>$math.min(345, 765)</td>

Thanks,
Tim


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Re: [BUG] Struts + Velocity + MathContextTool

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>]

On 1/6/02 5:36 PM, "Tim Colson" <tc...@cisco.com> wrote:

>> Apologies if this has been discussed before... backwater of my brain seems
>> to recall something similar perhaps, but can't grasp it.
> BTW - I do recall the big bunch of Floating point discussion and such... and
> so I pretty much expected the functions to fail in some way, but the weird
> things I noticed were in the escaped labels. ;-)
> Timo
> 

Because the escaping of references is done at runtime, as you can't tell at
parsetime what is a reference, as you need  a context to decide that.

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Geir Magnusson Jr.                                     geirm@optonline.net
System and Software Consulting
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin



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