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So hacking on Renshi to reduce typing needed for Ruby insertion led me to change the functionality of $ . It now acts more like a toggle switch and the $ symbol is finally inappropriate.

So here I think perhaps the pipe symbol would be a better fit. I'm seeking opinion on the following symbol use.

Take a quick glance at the bottom of this file, for the updated symbology.

Proprosed symbols:

| reserves the rest of the line (up until \n or the end of the element) for ruby, unless another | toggles back into HTML.

e.g.

<p>Welcome back |current_user.name| long time no see!</p>
is the same as
<p>Welcome back |current_user.name
long time no see! </p>

|| is used for a single phrase, so no toggle back is necessary

<p>Welcome back ||current_user.name long time no see!</p> 


|{..} or |{..}| is used for some characters which can't be contained by the | symbol, for example in case you had to use '||'.

Alternatively, it might just be {..}, and to actually output a '{' in HTML you'd double it - {{.

<p>Welcome back |{ current_user.name + "\n" + current_user}| It might be possible that |{..} is no longer needed ... 

|[..] or |[..]| would be used for ruby src code insertion (stuff that won't be to stringed)

|[if foo]
  hello
|[end]

Again, it might just be 

[if foo]
  hello
[end]

[[ would output '['.


There'd have to be an escape character for | - it might be \| or something.

The only flaw of the | symbol, so far, is that it might be mistaken for a lowercase L in some fonts; but that's easily solvable (and the default font on Textmate is Monaco, anyhow).

In addition, the attribute expression stuff would drop the r prefix.

Instead of 

<p r:if="user.authorized?">secret info.</p>

it would be

<p :if="user.authorized?">secret info. </p>




----- Summation

| - toggles in and out
|| - switches in for unbroken phrase. ||Time.now this is html now
{..} - for the defined open and end, which can handle the '|' char
[..] for src.