[stringtemplate-interest] The length of things

[Terence Parr]

On May 9, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Tom Bentley wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a getFoo() method in my model which returns an array. I was  
> sort of expecting that I could access the length of this array in  
> StringTemplate using something along the lines of:
>
>   $obj.foo.length$
>
> However, this doesn't work: I get a NoSuchField exception because  
> length is supposedly not a field of the thing returned by getFoo().
>

Yup, you need to have a getLength() method I'm afraid.  For size, it  
would be convenient to answer size of array but also size of string.   
The problem is that it's ambiguous.  it would also be yet another  
place where a type would have to be assumed to resolve the  
ambiguity.  But, I'm not ncessarily totally opposed.

Ter