[Zope3-dev] Re: [z3-five] zcml questions

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>   It would *also* require that we
>>> implement the "no side-effects during parsing" policy (my other  
>>> favorite
>>> "dead horse" in arguments about ZCML's implementation / usage).
>> Beat away. :)  I've been in favor of this for some time.  This is  
>> definitely a goal.
>
> Can we have a papal edict that zcml that has side effects is a bug?
> (including the dotted name thing...)

No, but I'm definitely in favor of refactoring existing handlers so  
they do pretty much all of their work in the actions they generate.

Jim

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