Paulo Gaspar wrote:
>
> For me, that behavior sounds perfect.
>
> However, I must confess that the reverse would also be ok.
>
Reverse is problematic - it can be done, but would require a bit more
entanglement and complexity (I think), and there doesn't seem to be any
real benefit, other than a kind of intellectual completeness. The
current way, rendering the original reference passed in rather than the
arg is more of an artificial side effect, I think.
> The way I use it, when a Velocity reference/var gets rendered with the
> dollar $ign and all it is just because I am doing something wrong.
> =:o)
In general no - I think people might want to use the '$' for output (
'$ale' or 'Micro$oft' )
but yes, when passing a reference into a VM...
#foo( $reference )
I can't imagine that one would do this in order to get '$reference'
rendered into the stream. If you wanted that,
#foo( '$reference' )
As I said, I think of it as a side effect, and I now think it was a
mistake made in my zeal for 100% backwards compatibility.
> BTW, please tell me a couple of files involved in this issue. I would
> like to have a starting point to better understand this bit of Velocity.
The place to look is VMProxyArg. Look for the comments that
specifically note this issue :)
geir
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