diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index 08103856..1c535d71 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ===== SVN trunk  =====
+25/02/2011
+- bugfix for Smarty2 style compiler plugins on unnamed attribute passing like {tag $foo $bar}
+
 24/02/2011
 - bugfix $smarty->clearCache('some.tpl') did by mistake cache the template object
 
diff --git a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
index f33c131f..5b22cec1 100644
--- a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
+++ b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
@@ -198,8 +198,12 @@ class Smarty_Internal_TemplateCompilerBase {
                         if (is_callable($plugin)) {
                         	// convert arguments format for old compiler plugins
                             $new_args = array();
-                            foreach ($args as $mixed) {
-                                $new_args = array_merge($new_args, $mixed);
+                            foreach ($args as $key => $mixed) {
+                            	if (is_array($mixed)) {
+                                	$new_args = array_merge($new_args, $mixed);
+                                } else {
+                                	$new_args[$key] = $mixed;
+                                }
                             } 
                             return $plugin($new_args, $this->smarty);
                         }