On 15/02/2012 22:50, Kin-man Chung wrote:
> Thanks for the feed back on EL 3.0.
>
> EL has currently another xml special character, namely, <. How is this
> handled in facelets?
>
> Regardless, it seems prudent to pick another symbol for concatenation.
> Consider the expression
>
> foo &
>
> which in EL means foo concatenate amp. Already I can see there may be
> confusions. :-)
>
> What does other EGs think about this?
There is a lack of hard data in the original report. Before we consider
changing this I'd like to see some harder evidence than "I imagine".
> I recall the other symbols we considered:
>
> 1. ++
> 2. #
> 3. +=
> 4. !
Of those, "+=" would be my preference. I'd also like to throw "+" into
the ring.
> In any case, we should also allow the string "concat" as an operator,
> like "eq" or "lt" etc.
I agree a string form should also be supported. I'd suggest something
shorter as all the other string forms are two or three characters.
Possibilities:
cc
cat
ct
sc
Mark
>
> Kin-man
>
> On 02/15/12 08:31, Bauke Scholtz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw the proposal for the new EL 3.0 string concatenation operator &.
>>
>> The idea is at its own great. However, since a XML special character
>> is been used, I wonder how it should be used in Facelets since that's
>> a XML based view technology which needs to go through a XML parser
>> first. I imagine that we'd need to escape the & as & everywhere.
>> This isn't very developer friendly. I'd suggest a different operator
>> symbol.
>>
>> Cheers, Bauke
>>
>