On Wed, April 25, 2007 9:19 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> $var1 = "Something " + PHP Notice
>> $var2 = "Something Hmmm_that";
>
> I wonder whether Smarty's way of specifying variables is based on
> this...
Smarty came "before" PHP's use of {} in embedded quotes and the
aborted attempt to make that the string-as-array operator, I think.
There are only so many ASCII non-alphanumeric symbols available on the
keyboard.
When you need an opening/closing "pair" the options get very limited
indeed.
When < and > are already taken by HTML, and ( and ) are more common in
normal text, the choice of { and } is pretty much the obvious choice.
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