[Zope3-dev] Re: zcml questions

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> We do "eager" checking of dotted names (during the parse), which makes
> it impossible to write a directive which synthesisizes the target of a
> dotted name without side-effects (e.g., the 'five:bridge' directive).
> 
> If we delayed the check until after parsing was complete, then we could
> eliminate one source of side effects.  Side-effect-free parsing would
> open a lot of possibilities:  "ZCML introspector" tools, for instance.

Good points!