On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:24:29PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > I know I'm coming in very late to this party, but fwiw I'm not > sure that "{varname}" is a good syntax to use in the long run, > as it tends to eat up the curly brace characters and make it > difficult for any other markups to make use of them. > (Bracketing characters are very precious in markup -- imagine > how difficult many things would be if PmWiki had chosen to use > single brackets for its link markup, as in [link].) > [...]
Just to be sure my previous message isn't misinterpreted... I'm not at all saying that Fox "absolutely must" change its {var} syntax.. I'm just indicating that it's a design choice I wouldn't have made myself (for the reasons given in my previous message), and that I can't guarantee that it won't pose a core conflict in the future. I don't have any plans that would immediately indicate a likely core conflict... but as we start looking at convergence with other markup languages and content engines, the {var} syntax looks a bit risky to me, because there are so many other possible meanings that could be attached to simple curly braces. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users