[Templates] undefined warnings

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com> writes:

Mark> btw, another unfortunate problems in this area is that if you do
Mark> turn on DEBUG=undef, you can't successfully test for being defined
Mark> without dying:

Mark> [% IF (!defined(blah)) %]protected[%END%]

Mark> though you could do something awful like:

Mark> [% DEFAULT blah = 'unusual_value' %]
Mark> [% IF (blah == 'unusual_value')]protected[%END%]

DEFAULT isn't about undef.  It's about false.

[% foo = ''; DEFAULT foo = 'hey'; foo %]

prints "hey".

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