yuppie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Glick wrote: >> Does anyone have an objection to me adding 'context' as an alias for >> 'object' in the expression context that is built when executing CMF >> action expressions (in getExprContext in CMFCore/Expression.py)? This >> would remove one common source of minor confusion for beginning >> CMF/Plone developers (namely, having to use object in action expressions >> when you use context everywhere else). > > -1 > > "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." > > 'context' is deprecated for this kind of expressions, CMF uses 'object' > everywhere. Supporting 'object' *and* 'context' or switching from > 'object' to 'context' will cause even more confusion. > > Please see this thread > http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2005-March/021990.htmlwith this result > http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2005-March/021999.html
+1 I'm not really up on the historical considerations, but I'm definitely in favor of "context" and definitely opposed to "object". "object" is too generic, the request is an object after all, everything is an object. "context" reads more like what it is. Ross _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF@lists.zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope-cmf/ for bug reports and feature requests
