Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] Template Discussion

[email protected] Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:01:05 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)
Newsgroups php.template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I guess I didn't understand it completely, but if you it's basically a tool 
> that almost lets you generate languages, I don't think it's a good thing to 
> do.  Simply put - there should be just one syntax to write logic in PHP, 
> and that's PHP syntax.  That's my opinion.

Well, no, that isn't your opinion because you have stated that you think a
simple templating system would be a good idea.  No matter how simple you
make it, it is still another syntax.  The question is really where the
line should be drawn on the sort of features this simplified template
syntax should contain.

People want templates.  Different people want templates with varying
levels of complexity.  We can either pretend these people don't exist or
we can do what we can to help them get what they want while at the same
time making sure that the vicious circle of templates on top of templates
does not propogate.

-Rasmus