[jerome: Re: [Zope] [ANN] ZShell 0.1]

[Jerome Alet]

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Sorry, forgotten the CC to the list.

Jerome Alet
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 21:25:35 +0200
From: Jerome Alet <jerome>
To: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Subject: Re: [Zope] [ANN] ZShell 0.1
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In-Reply-To: <87vgnhx88y.fsf@joyful.com>; from simon@joyful.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:46:21AM -0700

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:46:21AM -0700, Simon Michael wrote:
> 
> woa! The new features sound cool.  Why did you switch to an external
> method, as a matter of interest ?

to be able to access all the needed standard modules, especially re,
even if it's not used yet, as well as having a full access to Python
power.

> I think simpler is better for now. But, now that you mention it, how
> about 
> 
> - "name=value" sets attribute "name" of the current folder
> - "$name" returns the value of attribute name
> - also "some/path/name = value", "$(some/path/name)"

What a nice idea !
 
> and then perhaps
> 
> - treat objects as folders, whose contents are their attributes. If an
> object or folder is used as a scalar as above, get or set it's
> "primary value"

I don't think I'll do that because it's confusing what the behaviour
of some methods would be then.
 
bye,

Jerome Alet

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