[Zope3-dev] Re: Inline code

Tue Feb 10 10:41:57 EST 2004

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:27:37 -0500 (EST)
Shane Hathaway <shane at zope.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> > Further, one way to make inline code portable is to treat inline
> > code as a module, rather than as a collection of anonymous code
> > blocks.  For example:
> > 
> > <html>
> > <head><title>Shane's Example</title>
> > <script type="text/server-python">
> > import time
> > def showtime():
> >     return time.asctime()
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > Date and time: <span tal:content="code/showtime">(time)</span>.
> > </body>
> > </html>
> 
[..]
> Hmm, I can't think of any more cons. :-)  This seems like a big win 
> overall.  Maybe we could try this in Zope 2 first.

I personally would prefer the "python library" approach. My templates
are already ugly enough as it is.

And just to let it be known again, I would really prefer a world where
one wrote python and html (or xml) and the former transformed the
latter. The latter would not have any scripting or additional markup in
it what so ever. So that makes me naturally oppose anything that mixes
more logic into the template.

-Casey