How about a bean that contains
String getXML()
and
String getXml()
methods? Yes, I've seen such code.
My proposal was to make this configurable. Yes, we all hate endless
language configuration options, but I thought this issue would be worth it.
For many systems lowering the barrier to template writers is important,
especially when you have a well-defined set of references that don't
conflict. (And for situations where the references are less well-defined or
have case issues you would keep the case sensitivity).
For what it's worth, I implemented a test version of Velocity (on my hard
drive) that implemented this, with case-insensitivity for directives,
macros, references, properties and macro arguments (all different places in
the code). Took me just a few hours. The only thing I couldn't figure out
was how to make this configurable for directives since JavaCC has a
case-sensitivity property that's compiled into the code.
Anyway, I got argued down at the time and decided that we weren't quite
ready for this.
WILL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: hometree.jakarta.velocity.users
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Language Lawyer question (was: Re: syntax issue)
"Tim Colson \(tcolson\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(I've previously argued we should make the entire language
case-insensitive).
Interesting... I could go +1 for that.
Why? How about a hash map that contains "foo", "Foo", "FOO" and
"foO". What would
#foreach ($i in $hashmap.keys())
$i --> $hashmap.get($i)
#end
result in?
Even if Velocity should be simple for template writers, it still
interfaces with business logic. And here, case-sensititivy counts a
lot. How about a bean that contains
String getXML()
and
String getXml()
methods? Yes, I've seen such code.
I'd -0 for case insensitivity. I don't see good reasons for it and I
can imagine a lot of problems stemming from it.
Regards
Henning
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