Thanks a lot for EVERYTHING Geir.
Your remarks are acurate.
I am going to take a look at this bit and try to understand it.
Have fun,
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Geir Magnusson Jr.
>
>
> 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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