[Zope3-dev] Re: Better access to APIs in paths

[Shane Hathaway]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> But I would suggest that people's dislike for the TAL and METAL 
> namespaces may not apply here.  "tal:" and "metal:" are like Python 
> builtin names, in that they should always be recognized, whereas this 
> new feature is more like a Python import statement, in that the 
> namespace declaration gives the template access to some special feature 
> of the system that might not always be available.

... I mean to say that the namespace declaration gives the template 
access to some special feature of the system that page templates don't 
provide directly.  (Availability is a separate issue.)

Shane