Shopify/liquid — Issue #86: Why you use different brackets style?
Author: pavelvasev
Created: 2012-01-14 00:59:11+00:00
State: open

Dear Liquid developers!

We are looking at your great templating engine with a goal to embed it in our LineAct Website Builder.

The first question after reading docs is the only one: why you use 2 different style of curles, e.g. {{ }} and {% %} ?

Why we cannot just use 1 style? (say {{ }} ) I think it is much more easier for user to remember this.
And actually, we can automatically distinguish between output formatting and tags. E.g. if the first word after {{ is from tag's dictionary, that's tag, else it is output formatting.

Waiting for your opinion!

Thank you very much!