Delimiter changes from % to ? if not set.

Hello,

I developed a private npm package where i used ejs to render some emails. When i am developing the package i never had issues while running rendering tests, demoing etc. In this case when i var ejs = require('ejs') the exported object comes without a defined delimiter.

As soon as i published my packaged and started using it inside a docker container, which runs an older version of node (i think its 5.X.X), the delimiter is set to ? after require.

This rendered all my templates useless and i took a while to discover. I easily solved my problem by setting the delimiter but it thought my report could still be useful. Is this a known problem? Do you want more details in order to track this problem down? I think this should be investigated.

[User4martin]

Well yes. And No.

Some other package in your node_modules (or in your own code, or any code you use) has set it to “?”

If you do anywhere

var foo = require("ejs");
foo.delimiter = '?';

and then later require ejs somewhere else, then the delimiter is set already.

[bertolo1988]

Oh my god, you are absolutely right.

In my defense… the project i am working on is huge and i don’t know most of it. I am completely surprised that it was already being used and defined.

Thanks alot.