[Zope] tino's <dtml-in> improvements Why, DC?

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:00:19 +0100


Hi all,

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > > There [are] concerns about namespace pollution and
> > > stomping on variables that people may have currently defined
> >
> > It's proper to address this. But some aspects of tino's or others'
> > proposals are probably less problematic than others, and the plan could
> > perhaps attempt to have different levels of ambition, so that we
> > increase the probability of getting *some* progress. Maybe tino might
> > want to consider splitting the patch into two patches that separately
> > address underscore aliasing and custom loop variables?
> >
> > Hamish Lawson
> 
> Right - these are the kinds of decisions I'd like to see
> hammered out in the fishbowl project area.

This seems logic at the first glance. But keep in mind the "pollution"
of 
the namespace is more caused by the patch to remove the hypenations.
The second part shows only up, if a programmer _decides_ to use it.
E.g. if you dont use the prefix argument, it is still "sequence" and 
therefore perfectly compatible with code assuming this.
If you, however decide to use the prefix, you should know what you
do as always.

Regards
Tino