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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:02:05 -0800 (PST)
From: "Byron Foster (JIRA)" <dev@velocity.apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (VELOCITY-681) [regression] Changes on the macro
 parameters are not persisted outside the macro call
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Byron Foster commented on VELOCITY-681:
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I looked at this some more, and my vote is to release 1.6.2 as it is.  This is obscure behavior even though we know at least one person who is taking advantage of it.  However,  I would argue that there are better ways to do this.   LIke I said, Sergiu has a good point about the behavior change, but fixing it is a real pain with little upside.  I'm pretty confident that I could find some other obscure error as a result of fixing this.


> [regression] Changes on the macro parameters are not persisted outside the macro call
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VELOCITY-681
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-681
>             Project: Velocity
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Engine
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.1
>            Reporter: Sergiu Dumitriu
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.6.2, 1.7
>
>         Attachments: VELOCITY-681-1.6.patch, VELOCITY-681-trunk.patch
>
>
> The fix for VELOCITY-615 was too radical, since it completely disables #setting new values to the formal arguments. A minimalistic example that used to work up to 1.6 (but not with 1.6.1) is:
> {noformat}
> #macro(myMacro $result)
>   #set($result = 'some value')
> #end
> #myMacro($x)
> $x
> {/noformat}
> which prints $x (as an undefined variable).

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