[Zope3-dev] .App+

[Steve Alexander]

Chris Withers wrote:
> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> 
>>For me, .App. just looks like an error.  It's close enough to Python
>>to be familiar, but far enough to be jarring.  .App+ at least harkens
>>to regular expressions, or shell globbing, etc. and at the very least,
>>doesn't look like broken Python.
>>
>>BTW, my first suggestion was .App... (ellipsis) but Jim hated that. ;)
> 
> 
> Well, for me, + is much more appropriate that .
> It gives the impression that it'll be expanded.
> 
> And, to be honest, if we're gonna change at one end, why not at the other too?
> 
> +App+ makes much more sense to me than .App., .App+, +App. or even ...App... ;-)

-1

The dot on the front means "from the package this zcml file is in".
The dot or + on the end means "repeat the last name as necessary".

They mean entirely different things.

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Steve Alexander