Re: [ic] if tag weird behavior

[Mike Heins <suppressed>]

Quoting Ton Verhagen (suppressed):
> Dear All,
> 
> I noticed the following 'weird' behavior of the if tag.
> 
> Examine the following code:
> 
> [tmp test_value]00000036[/tmp]
> 
> [if type=explicit condition="[scratch test_value]"]
>         Value is: [scratch test_value]
> [else]
>         No value
> [/else]
> [/if]
> 
> Result:
>         Value is: 00000036
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> Now set the tmp to another (special ?) value:
> 
> [tmp test_value]00000159[/tmp]
> ..... if-code as above
> 
> 
> Result:
>         No value
> 
> 
> When I change the above code to the following, everything works as expected.
> 
> [if type=explicit condition="[scratch test_value]"]
> [condition]
>         return 1 if $Scratch->{test_value};
>         return 0;
> [/condition]
>         Value is: [scratch test_value]
> [else]
>         No value
> [/else]
> [/if]
> 
> 
> This behavior can be duplicated in the online demo (test code in admin 
> section)
> 
> Any ideas?

Explicit is intended to have valid code as it's test, and a literal like
that has undetermined behavior when interpreted as Perl code.

Why you would do that instead of:

	[if scratch test_value]
	foo
	[/if]

???

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