> Personally I don't know any developer who is using raw php in project without template engine
Zend, Yii, various CMS like Wordperss, internal business-applications - in many cases such projects don't have a template engine. I usually work with Yii and internal applications on custom engines. This is the reason why I raised this question. By the way, the syntax is not weird. It is just <?* $var1, $var2 ?>. How to use $var2 is fully up to application.
