OK, so I would go for [=exp] (see the reason told in this thread). How
acceptable is that guys?
Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 11:56:59 AM, Woonsan Ko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Monday, December 4, 2017, 10:21:48 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote:
>>
>>> uh-huh, but I suspect maybe more collisions or need to escape
>>> character in something like [this] or <this> than {{this}}. Anyway,
>>> nothing critical IMO, only thinking out loud.
>>
>> But they were [=this] and <=this>, so the sequences that will clash
>> are "[=" and "<=", which are quite rare. Oh wait... "<=" is not rare
>> at all: "if (x <= y)". But "[=" still is. OK, so I guess at this point
>> the two competitors left are {{exp}} and [=exp] (regardless of tag
>> syntax).
>
> +1.00 on [=exp].
> +0.49 on {{exp}}.
>
> :-D
>
> Many languages or templates allows ${exp}, including JavaScript. [1]
> And, mustache is supported in many languages or templates, too. [2]
> Therefore, I think there are more chances using both ${exp} and
> {{exp}} in output we want to generate in the future.
> The mustache style looks charming at the moment, but I wonder how its
> charming can help for the original intention (to avoid any possible
> collision in the output we want to generate by an alternative as much
> as we can).
>
> Regards,
>
> Woonsan
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation
> [2] https://mustache.github.io/
>
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> Monday, December 4, 2017, 9:17:34 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So maybe a safe bet (and a familiar one) is the mustache syntax.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition to avoiding clashes it might help with a multi-chained
>>>>> template. For example, we use FreeMarker extensively in Apache OFBiz
>>>>> to generate many documents including XML. Now our XML documents might
>>>>> contain some ${variable} that needs to be interpreted in the XML
>>>>> parser, not the freemarker parser (without having to escape characters
>>>>> everywhere)
>>>>
>>>> Though that also works with all the other proposal syntaxes as well.
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Jacques Le Roux
>>>>> <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Le 03/12/2017 à 22:06, Woonsan Ko a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is also most productive as no shift key is required.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends on keyboard, for French keyboard type (azerty) you need to use
>>>>>> Alt
>>>>>> key ;)
>>>>>> Same for {{...}} anyway
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Daniel Dekany
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel Dekany
>>
>
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Thanks,
Daniel Dekany
