Re: "first" as a variable

It's not a bug as such, more of a typical "reserved word" issue.

The simple workaround is to use

	category2article.item(n) 

...which tells TT to treat 'n' as an attribute, and not as a VMethod.

cheers
RET
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Richard Thomas
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On 16/12/2011, at 12:23 PM, Ben Bullock wrote:

> In my template,
> 
> [% FOR name IN name_list %]
> [%- n = name.0 | lower %]
> [%- IF category2article.$n %]
> [% cats = category2article.$n -%]
> /* [% n %] */
> article_t cat_[% loop.count - 1 %][] = {
> [%- cats.join (", ") -%], -1};
> [%- END %]
> [%- END %]
> 
> In the usual case, this produces
> 
> /* event */
> article_t cat_748[] = {419, 1346, -1};
> 
> But when "name_list" contains the word "first",
> 
> /* first */
> article_t cat_775[] = {HASH(0x2862d2d0), -1};
> 
> This seems to be some kind of mismatch between the template toolkit's
> "first" keyword and the action of the variable $n. I am not sure if
> this is the expected behaviour, but if it is, how should I have
> phrased category2article.$n to avoid this?
> 
> At the moment I have just written a trap for it:
> 
> [% FOR name IN name_list %]
> [%- n = name.0 | lower %]
> [%- IF n != 'first' -%]
> [%- IF category2article.$n %]
> [% cats = category2article.$n -%]
> /* [% n %] */
> article_t cat_[% loop.count - 1 %][] = {
> [%- cats.join (", ") -%], -1};
> [%- END %]
> [%- END # first trap -%]
> [%- END %]
> 
> This works because I didn't need "first" as a keyword, but it's a bit
> worrying that I have to do this and I suspect a bug.
> 
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