On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:49:19PM -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: > I'm tired of this.
Yes indeed :-) > Do you have a better alternative to subpath > prefixes? The constraints are tight: (snip) > - You have to provide an easy way to access APIs. It's important for > Zope 3. are you talking about things like z3 services? and/or zope 2 API stuff like foo.objectItems? > - You have to provide a way to explicitly acquire. It's important for > Zope 3! > > - You can't use Python statements in templates. right, expressions only... > - Everyone is going to argue over your solution for months. really???? :-) > I've tried very hard to invent a way to solve the problems with path > expressions without changing TALES. I can't. So I gave myself the > flexibility of using just one character that was reserved anyway in path > expressions, and the solution fell out. > > If you want to look for a solution, consider using *only* Python > expressions--no path expressions. You'll get a lot of mileage that way, > but at the expense of syntax clashes. Who knows, you might find a > pretty good solution. I think this is what I'm going to investigate. Who knows, I might find only bad solutions :-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE SCIENTIFIC KING LEAR ! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
