[VELOCITY-406] Improved Syntax for Maps and Collections

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jörg Gottschling
• Created: 26/Sep/05 18:17
• Updated: 02/Jan/09 18:35
• Resolved: 02/Jan/09 18:35

Description

I would like to see some syntatic sugar for Maps and Collections and perhaps other Objects too.
(I have read that there will be a syntax for map literals in 1.5, that's a first step.)

I want to have something like in groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Collections
Scroll down to "Slicing with the subscript operator".

PS: Please do never implement this terrible confusing groovy map bean syntax, where "map.foo" ist equivalent to "map.get("foo")".