simple_tag should ignore undefined arguments to be consistent with template language

[adriannye@…]

Template references to an undefined variable are silently replaced with the empty string:

{{ undefined_variable }}

is replaced by

But if that same variable is referenced as an argument to a templatetag that uses the simple_tag decorator,
it will return an exception:

{% my_simple_tag undefined_variable %}

raises an exception. This also happens if there are multiple arguments and any one of them is undefined.

The simple_tag decorator resolves all variables in the context using:

resolved_vars = [var.resolve(context) for var in self.vars_to_resolve]

It would be better if this code handled the variable consistently, so that users could switch back and forth from using a templatetag or not and see the same result. One way would be to replace the above code with the following:

                    resolved_vars = []
                    for var in self.vars_to_resolve:
                        try:
                            value = var.resolve(context)
                        except VariableDoesNotExist:
                            value = None
                        resolved_vars.append(value)

[Tim Graham]

I disagree as the trend I've observed is to make the template language fail more loudly, not less so. If you strongly disagree, please bring it up on the DevelopersMailingList. Thanks!