The `$(MACRO=$(other_MACRO))` construct will result in an extra ) when MACRO is defined

[claudio-rosati]

This is also true if ${MACRO=${other_MACRO}} is used (and and extra } will result.

CSSTUDIO-970.zip

[kasemir]

In the current implementation, the default value cannot itself be another macro. I'll have to update the macro handling to support that.

[claudio-rosati]

Personally I don't know if it's worth. I think that even if you implement it, someone else will soon or later come up with

${MACRO=${other_MACRO=${further_MACRO}}}

and so on. I leave to you the decision. If we'll go for constant value only, I'll tell our integrator that this is. Maybe we should update the HTML documentation in any case.

[kasemir]

Yes, never misunderestimate people's creativity.

I'll update it anyway because of this:

// XXX Replace pattern with code.
// This pattern is too complicated,
// and it doesn't allow braces inside the default value.
private static final Pattern spec = Pattern
 .compile("(?<!\\\\)\\$\\((" + Macros.MACRO_NAME_PATTERN + ")((\\s*=\\s*)[^)]*)?\\)" +
 "|" +
          "(?<!\\\\)\\$\\{(" + Macros.MACRO_NAME_PATTERN + ")((\\s*=\\s*)[^}]*)?\\}");

There's one \ too many in that for me to understand what's going on.

[kasemir]

$(MACRO=$(other_MACRO)) works now.

[claudio-rosati]

Thank you very much.