Views learn to think

A view has been a string with holes in it: HTML, variables, nothing else. Conditionals and loops meant leaving the view and assembling markup in a method. Now the control structures are part of the language, written as tags so the template still reads as markup:

<if $this->showChildren>
    <foreach $this->childList AS $column => $child>
        {{ CMS($child->obj, 'listing', $this, records: $this->record->$column) }}
    </foreach>
</if>

Writing them as <if> and <foreach> rather than as escaped PHP is the choice that matters. The view stays scannable as HTML, the nesting is visible to your editor's tag matching, and a closing tag tells you what it closes.

The transpiler tracks block depth to make that work, and does one thing beyond the obvious: it compensates the indentation, so the generated HTML comes out as neatly indented as the source. Output you can read in the browser's inspector is not decoration; it is the difference between debugging your page and debugging your template.

The same release brings the shorthand that keeps views short. <div#main.small.red/> expands to the full attributes, and attributes never needed quotes. Interpolation settles into two forms: {{ }} for a value, {( )} for an expression inside an attribute.

See the Views chapter.