Re: [FreeMarker-user] FW: crud screens and null.

[Jonathan R. <re...@gm...>]

Daniel Dekany wrote:
> Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 3:41:35 PM, Payne, Matthew wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>So support the "!"
>>
>>To express is much simpler.  In addition it allows the author to
>>say "it might be null, but I do not care".
> 
> 
> Not without specifying a default value. I agree that ?default(exp)
> should have a shorter form (together with number and date formatting
> BTW). But I would prefer things like if_exist gone, not to mention
> giving a shorthand for that.
> 

As a practical matter, I'm pretty certain that we can't get rid of
?if_exists at this point. We would just break too many existing
tempaltes. The most we can do is provide some alternative
and encourage people to use that instead.

JR