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by txmikester 4455 days ago
Sure, until you are trying to generate php.

The templating engine is one of the parts carried over from the old Xpand project on which Xtend is based. Xpand's sole purpose was as a templating language for writing code generators in MDE projects, and as such they tried to make it easy to generate any kind of code, so they chose a non-ASCII delimiter.

It's really not a problem in practice - type < and then ctrl-space and code completion will fill it in for you. The only real gotcha is that you have to make sure your project is set to use UTF-8 encoding, which unfortunately is not the default setting in Eclipse.