[Zope3-dev] ? vs $

[Jim Fulton]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> SteveA and I are confused why in a path in TALES you can use ? for
> expansion, but $ elsewhere.  E.g. you can write
> 
>     <td tal:content="context/?jobid/summary">

You can? I thought this undocumented feature was gone.
It *is* undocumented (isn't it?).

The rational for using ? was that ? isn't legal in Zope
names.

I would prefer to treat this as a non-feature. In fact, 
I would go so far as to take it out.

If someone really wants this, we ought to think harder about
how to provide it.

> 
> I believe that in string expressions you can use $foo to expand a
> variable:
> 
>     <td tal:content="string:${jobid}">
> 
> Why can't we use $jobid in the first example?

Because it's not a string expression.

Jim

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