Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.52

I don't think that the people on the template mailing list are the people
that are necessarily the ones that have an opinion about this subject.
IMHO, it's actually one of the better subjects that came up on the php3
list in the last few months :)

Zeev

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 [email protected] wrote:

> Guys, there is a template mailing list for a reason.  This is a
> controversial subject and will generate all sorts of traffic, so let's
> keep it where it is supposed to be, please.
> 
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> 
> > But the idea is that templates aren't supposed to be powerful.  They're
> > supposed to be quite dumb, so that anyone could understand them with no
> > more than 5 minutes of learning if he's not a programmer guy, and with no
> > learning at all if he is.  If they become powerful, it almost immediately
> > means they become complex, which defeats their very purpose.
> > 
> > Zeev
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > 
> > > I did. A long time ago. Didn't find it powerful enough.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, mocha_php wrote:
> > > > you might want to look at phplib's template.inc and FastTemplate class if 
> > > > you haven't already done so.
> > > > 
> > > > At 04:17 PM 3/20/00 -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > > > >I have uploaded PHP Template Engine specification revision 0.52. It can
> > > > >be accessed at http://va.php.net/~andrei/tpl-engine-spec.txt. For more
> > > > >information see http://va.php.net/~andrei/tpl-engine.html. This revision
> > > > >addresses quite a few issues related to sections and multi-valued
> > > > >variables. Your opinions are welcome on the php-template mailing list.
> > > > >
> > > > >-Andrei
> > > > >
> > > > >"Claiming Java is easier than C++ is like
> > > > >  saying that K2 is shorter than Everest."
> > > > >  -- Larry O'Brien (editor, Software Development)
> > > > >
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> > > 
> > > -Andrei
> > > 
> > > "Music expresses that which can not be said
> > >  and on which it is impossible to be silent."
> > >                          -Victor Hugo
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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> > 
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