[Zope3-dev] Re: zcml questions

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> 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.

We'll need to remove the parse-time error checking of name resolution
then, which means storing filename / line number information with each
dotted name so that the failed resolution can be reported when actions
are running.


Tres.
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