From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T06:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP ERB

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 06:39 +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One of the nice things about php is that the '<?>' keys are close to 
> each other.  One of the annoying things about asp and jsp is that '<>' 
> use one hand, and '%' uses another.
> 
> Attached is a patch to erb.rb that allows ?'s as well as %'s in erb 
> templates:
> 
>    <% puts "this works" %>
>    <? puts "as does this" ?>

+1 in concept, because XML standards suggest it this way, too. However,
<?ruby is better, following the XML processing-instructions spec.