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

Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> I guess I just don't see a big benefit to each template describing its
> own delimiters.

It does not. There is a set of standard delimiters and if the
template does not define a different set of delimiters, these
are used.

If a template uses a different set of delimiters, there is little
use to define there delimiters outside of the template, for example
in an ini-file, because if you copy that template to a different
installation, you will

a) almost surely have template which use standard delimiters in
   that installation, so you have either to convert the newly 
   imported template or the old templates
b) almost surely forget to adapt these settings so that the
   imported template will break.

If all template use standard delimiters by default and these
templates that do not (for a reason) use these standard declare
so at the top, templates can easily be switched between installations
with no adaption problems and without bothering. The format is self-
contained and self-describing.

Kristian

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