Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.35

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Kristian Köhntopp wrote:
> Forget the thing about an escape mechanism, obviously the
> #OPENDELIMITER and #CLOSEDELIMITER work just as that.

Ok.

> I still maintain the point that the template should be able
> to declare the delimiters used in that particular template
> file - everything else would be quite stupid, as you have a
> file that is not self-descriptive.

I guess I just don't see a big benefit to each template describing its
own delimiters. It's one thing to have delimiters set in .ini file so
that they are consistent for the application, and it's quite another to
introduce yet another special {{* delim .. *}} construct that will
redefine delimiters on per template basis.

-Andrei
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