Re: [Freemarker-devel] Custom syntax and strict tag syntax

[Jonathan R. <jre...@te...>]

bre...@eu... wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 09:59  pm, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>
>>> Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:07:51 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>>
>>>> Then... could I recommend to use something different character instead
>>>> of '%', that was a very bad choice of mine. '<%' is commonly used for
>>>> ASP and JSP, so it clash with that, if you generate such page. Also,
>>>> most HTML editors waits the closing '%>', thus highlighting the whole
>>>> HTML after the '<%' as "ASP"! So I recommend '@' instead.
>>>
>>
>> I actually noticed this syntax highlighting happening in an editor 
>> with this syntax just today. So <% is not such a good idea, I guess.
>>
> 
> We could also capitalise on this syntax highlighting and use <%if ...%>


My gut instinct is that it's better not to use the same syntax as 
JSP/ASP/Cold-fusion. There is some gain from reusing a familiar syntax, 
but I think the potential for confusion is a bigger disadvantage that 
outweighs that.

Cheers,

Jonathan