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

[Joel S. <jo...@me...>]

> In other words, it would have been very useful to have some special
> notation to replace empty strings with default values.

Isn't this what macros and functions are for?

${cellify(xxx)}

Create your own function and isn't it that easy?

And this is likely a candidate for a general library of functions as
is being discussed on a different thread.

Freemarker is already very powerful, it seems to me we should be
careful of proliferation of syntax and take advantage of its existing
power.