I'd prefer treating unquoted parameters as variables. If that's not possible make url accept a quoted view name and deprecate unquoted view names.
Especially unquoted non-ascii strings (as in test url05) are ugly and would require hacks or re.LOCALE in my approach in #7806. Am 20.07.2008 um 20:56 schrieb Malcolm Tredinnick: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:16 +0400, Ivan Sagalaev wrote: >> Julien Phalip wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> For months, there has been a mention in the url tag's documentation: >>> >>> "Note that the syntax for this tag may change in the future, as we >>> make it more robust." [1] >>> >>> Is that mention still relevant for 1.0 and beyond? >> >> If I recall correctly, there was a discussion that the first >> parameter >> should be changed to work like most other parameters to tags: >> treat it >> literally if it's quoted, otherwise look it up in context. The >> objection >> was that potential benefit wasn't worth the hassle of a backwards >> incompatible change. But I can't remember if there was a final >> decision. > > The couple of times I brought it up, it died from a lack of core > developers really caring that much. I thought it would have been a > good > idea to change it originally. I think it would be a bad idea to change > it now, since it's been in use for so long. If somebody wants to use > variables in a url-like tag, it's trivial to write your own variant. > We're not hurting anybody's software too much by not making the > change, > although it would have been nice to do so for consistency. > > I suspect that unless Adrian or Jacob pipe up in the very near future > with agreement to change it, we can remove that note because the > current > API will be set in stone. > > Malcolm > >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
