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is there any way to build conditional statements for the postal/email greeting and other tokenized fields (such as the display and sort name defaults)?

for example, i'd like to create a default postal greeting option of:

Dear {if contact.nick_name}{contact.nick_name}{else}{contact.first_name}{/if}
...which doesn't currently work.

I'm sort of assuming that the tokens are a derivative of the smarty templating, but am not sure if that's true, and if so -- where the differences are. Obviously tokens don't require the variable identifier ($). Are we just using the curly brackets because it's a nice way to define the tokens, or can we use smarty functions?