Re: Any plans for a 100% wm syntax compatibility?

Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Friday, March 21, 2008, 12:48:26 PM, Demetrios Kyriakis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are there any plans to support 100% "wm" (well I mean Velocity :) ) syntax?

No.

> I mean 100% in the template files (maybe with some switch property in the
> config of FM)?
>
> I think this would ease greatly the move to FM: it would pose no risks for
> the users since they would have no conversion work, so trying FM would mean
> just chaning a JAR (for most cases).

It wouldn't work, as there are important semantical differences as
well, like most importantly, the treatment of missing variables is
entirely different in FreeMarker.

> Thank you,
>
> Demetrios.
>
> -- 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat/
> http://freemat.sourceforge.net
>

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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