[apps-discuss] Question about URI template and expansion of an empty list

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Fri, 05 April 2013 18:39 UTC

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Subject: [apps-discuss] Question about URI template and expansion of an empty list
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Hello,

Let us say that there is a variable called "list", whose value is an empty list:

list = []

Now let us have this template:

X{.list}

Should the expansion be "X" or "X."? And, more importantly, why?

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