[Zope-dev] Re: stacks != easy to explain

Marc Lindahl marc@bowery.com
Mon, 13 May 2002 23:46:02 -0400


on 5/13/02 3:15 PM, Chris Withers at chrisw@nipltd.com scrivened:

> Marc Lindahl wrote:
>> 
>> Still I think the concept of TAL having some kind of 'stack' for condition
>> results makes sense and is worth exploring...  Could yield better logical
>> constructs, and things like case statements.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't see a 'stack' of any sort being easy to explain to a newbie
> or not programmer.

I'd disagree - HTML has this concept - for example the way table tags
inherit properties.  Key is that the 'stack' idea is hidden within the
hierarchy idea.