What is the reason for using #set( $symbol_dollar = '$' )...

[insideaem]

I wonder what is the reason for using #set( $symbol_dollar = '$' ) and then ${symbol_dollar}{properties.text} in the sightly scripts instead of just escaping the $ like this $?
According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878742/how-do-you-suppress-property-replacement-when-creating-a-project-from-an-archety escaping the $ should be fine.

More of a question not an issue!

Cheers,

[rombert]

Because otherwise it does not work :-)

I tried the following change

diff --git a/src/main/archetype/ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/__appsFolderName__/components/content/helloworld/helloworld.html b/src/main/archetype/ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/__appsFolderName__/components/content/helloworld/helloworld.html
index d3bb0a8..f49ba58 100644
--- a/src/main/archetype/ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/__appsFolderName__/components/content/helloworld/helloworld.html
+++ b/src/main/archetype/ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/__appsFolderName__/components/content/helloworld/helloworld.html
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@
     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     limitations under the License.
 */-->
-#set( $symbol_dollar = '$' )
-<p data-sly-test="${symbol_dollar}{properties.text}">Text property: ${symbol_dollar}{properties.text}</p>
+<p data-sly-test="\${properties.text}">Text property: \${properties.text}</p>

 <pre data-sly-use.hello="${package}.core.models.HelloWorldModel">
 HelloWorldModel says:
-${symbol_dollar}{hello.message}
+\${hello.message}
 </pre>

And the output included the backslash character, which is undesired. If you have a way of working around it, please submit a pull request and I'd be happy to review and apply it.

[rombert]

No response, closing