[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: TALES adapters and TAL/Tales variable namespaces

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Fri May 28 11:55:45 EDT 2004


Jim Fulton wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
>> What was the reasoning behind selecting @@ for the view namespace 
>> shortcut? (IIRC, the motivation was to use characters that could be 
>> used in URLs, but I'm not sure that's an issue for adapters...or is it?)
> 
> 
> Legal in urls, no English. @@ looks like two eyes viwing something. :)

Originally '@@' was jokingly referred to as "beer goggles" (holding up a 
pair of beer bottles through which to view the world.) ;)

Tres.
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