Hi

Is it just me or declaring a Map variable isn't working?

#set( $monkey.Map = {"banana" : "good", "roast beef" : "bad"}) ## Map

Gives me syntax error.

-Ben

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:02:23 -0800, Will Glass-Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and for the other example, try
> 
> #set( $notSupported1 = "spanning multiple" +
>                                      " lines")
> 
> WILL
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 1:29 PM
> Subject: multi-line directives (again)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get multi-line directives to work in velocity.
> 
> Is see the following post from 2002:
>    http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=7095
> 
> It looks like this feature never made it into velocity.
> 
> Why can't I do:
> 
> #set( $array =
>    "foo",
>    "bar",
>    "blah" )
> 
> or
> 
> #set( $notSupported1 = "spanning multiple\
> lines")
> 
> Is there an approved workaround?
> The (ugly) workaround I've been using for now allows me to
> break string constants accross multiple lines by embedding velocity
> comments and backslashes into them.
> 
> Some examples of this:
> 
> #set( $sample1 = "the great spa##\
> nner")    ## note that this line must start on the first column of the file!
> 
> or
> 
> #set( $sample2 = "I span #*\
>   *#wide spaces")   ## note that the whitespace was in a comment
> 
> or
> #set( $sample3 = "I span #*\
>     in a comment here\
>   *#wider spaces")
> 
> Thanks,
> -Greg Wolfe
> 
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