[VELOCITY-380] "Formal" directive notation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: Operating System: Windows 2000; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 34989
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard Wiseman
• Created: 20/May/05 23:53
• Updated: 11/Feb/11 11:23
• Resolved: 08/Mar/07 00:16

Description

Unless it's something I have to enable (and I've seen no mention of that in any
documentation), I don't believe using curly brackets to surround directives
actually works. According to
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/user-guide.html#Directives "Like references,
the name of the directive may be bracketed by a

{ and a }

symbol." I tried the
example in that section:

1. 1. First, a bit I added:
      #set( $a = 1 )
   2. The actual example line:
      #if($a==1)true enough# {else}no way!#end
      
      The output of this is, unexpectedly:
      
      true enough#{else}

      no way!

And if $a is set to 2 (for example), there is no output at all because the
#

{else}

is not spotted.