It's really a powerful feature to be able to control the name of the
loop counter variable. But it's always annoyed me that I can't take a
template that someone else has written and deploy it on my server
without first mucking with it. Because the loop counter name is set
server-wide, but is used on a per-template basis. Wouldn't it be nice
to be able to have a page definition which says on the template itself,
what the loop counter will be?
#define( counter.name = 'loopIndex' )
#define( counter.initial.value = 1 )
Then any template written somewhere will work somewhere else. But
imagine this:
#define( whitespace.gobble = 'none' )
whitespace is really sensitive in here,
i wish velocity wouldn't gobble it up
#define( whitespace.gobble = 'all' )
but here it's not, in fact, it'd be nice
if all redundant whitespace just disappeared ;-)
That'd be super cool. And I imagine it would simplify the parser
grammar a bit, which could be written to treat all whitespace as
sacrosanct, and instead whitespace could be handled with a
post-processor of some sort.
Anyway, just a thought.
Jason Pettiss
TheCatalis.com
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