[Zope3-dev] ? vs $

[Steve Alexander]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd rather have to do a $$ style escape for those rare
> circumstances.  I totally forgot that the ? option existed for TALES path
> expressions.  

I'd much rather have an $$ escape where that is needed, but retain the 
same rule about interpolating values.

I have seen code that uses python:path('foo/%s/baz' % bar)  rather than 
foo/?bar/baz. I don't think the use of ? as an interpolation character 
in path expressions is widely known. Which makes the case for switching 
to $ all the more compelling: I'm sure there's not much legacy code to 
change :-)

Actually, it wouldn't take much to support both syntaxes. I'd rather 
that the ? syntax is deprecated though.

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Steve Alexander