[stringtemplate-interest] suppressing newlines and empty strings

[Terence Parr]

On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:16 PM, David Ray wrote:

> Luis,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.  I'm using the Java version (2.2). Here's  
> an example:
>
> foo(bar) ::=
> <<
> hello $bar$
> >>
>
> yum() ::=
> <<
> $foo(bar="")$
> >>
>
> With this, I get the following error:
>
>    problem parsing template 'yum', line 1:11: unexpected char: '"'
>
> If I replace bar="" with bar="x" or any other non-empty string,  
> everything works.  This isn't a show-stopper bug, just kind of  
> annoying :)

I think i fixed that in 2.3 beta...try {} instead of "".  Or, just  
don't set it.  Parameters that are not set yield empty values by  
default :)

Ter