Interpolation is great but I would think twice before
making anything _optional_.
Ive spent a couple of years in the PHP world, and one
annoying thing is that so much behaviour is optional.
( ASP style tags, backslashing quotes etc )
At first, this seemed like an advantage, but as PHP libraries
and sample pages accumulated on the net, getting samples
to work with the rest of a site became difficult, as diffent
modules would require different options.
It would be a shame if "Velocity modules", ie collections
of pages and their java backends, could not be run
"out of the box". Having a global option (or even a page
level option) prevents this happening.
In my option, it is better to decide that some thing is _good_
and then always enable it. Compatabilities between
pages of sample code, or "velocity modules" more than outweigh any
small performance losses. It also makes testing a lot easier!
Incidently, I look forward to an active community producing
"banner rotators", "search engines", "permission editors"
etc as velocity modules!
> You can stuff anything you want into a string literal and if
> stringliterals.interpolate = true (the default) it will interpolate.
Andy
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