Well, fine with me. That's why I was asking. I will make sure that it is
right in the User Guide.
Best regards
Henning
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 13:36 -0700, Nathan Bubna wrote:
> Gotta say, i'm -1 on this too. zero isn't nothing to me. :) i could
> easily see this wreaking havoc on some of my templates.
>
> On 8/27/06, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just stumbled over that:
> >
> > --- cut ---
> >
> > #set ($a = 0)
> > #set ($b = 1)
> >
> > #set ($c = $a and $b)
> > #set ($d = $a or $b)
> >
> > A: $a
> > B: $b
> > C: $c
> > D: $d
> >
> > Rendering this template gives a bit of a surprising result:
> >
> > A: 0
> > B: 1
> > C: true
> > D: true
> >
> > While the behaviour is obvious (anything not-null is true in Velocity
> > expressions), it is still sort of a "gotcha". Personally I'd like to
> > see this behaviour changed (number '0' or the empty String '' get
> > converted to "false") because then it would match the expression
> > system of well known languages like perl or php(?).
> >
> > Any opinions on that?
> >
> > Best regards
> > Henning
> >
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