Re: [Webmacro-devel] Helping with the problems of nulls

[Keats <ke...@ea...>]

The #default directive does something like this, although it doesn't deal
with null, just undefined:

#default $myVar="Not specified"
$myVar

We've talked about this over the years.  It's kind of like the NVL function
in Oracle.  A simple function for this might be nice:

$nvl($myVar, "*NO VALUE*")

as an abbreviated form of

#if ($myVar){$myVar} else {*NO VALUE*}

I'd endorse something like this.

Keats