It's used in a couple of the examples: doc/examples/hello1.rvt:<?= "Hello World" ?> doc/examples/vars.rvt: <td><?= $title ?></td> doc/examples/vars.rvt: <td><?= $boss ?></td> doc/examples/vars.rvt: <td><?= $salary ?></td> doc/examples/vars.rvt: <td><?= $skills ?></td>
Also doc/xml/examples.xml describes the "shorthand" in prose. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Damon Courtney <da...@tclhome.com> wrote: > Is this documented somewhere? I poked around the docs a bit (which are > hideous, by the way) and couldn't find it mentioned. In fact, other than > our examples, I found only a single mention anywhere that <? ?> was how you > actually GET Rivet code into a webpage. > > In using the source (Luke), it looks as though the <?= ?> construct is > meant to be used as: > > <?= $some_variable ?> > > and that's about it. If the parser sees = as the first character of the > string, it append 'puts -nonewline' and then the rest of the string. So, > it looks like the = is only good for a single variable or value there since > no effort is made to output or close a quote. In other words: > > <?= $foo $bar ?> > > is going to blow up without doing: > > <?= "$foo $bar" ?> > > We either need to decide to upgrade this construct to quote the value, or > we really need to document this behavior. Actually, we need to document > the behavior either way, but I think the single value thing could be > better. Although it will make the code a little more complicated. The > current code is quite small and simple, so there's a vote for that. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org > >
