[ZPT] Re: Mini proposal: repeat-define and repeat-condition

[Godefroid Chapelle]

At 00:47 21/01/2003, Evan Simpson wrote:

Evan, thanks to jump in.

I remembered that you did propose something but not what.

>Richard Jones wrote:
>>This issue has come up before (ie. about a year and a half ago :). Does 
>>anyone recall where the conversation ended?
>
>I had propsed changing the order of operations from "define, condition, 
>repeat, etc." to "repeat, define, condition, etc.", and using a processing 
>instruction in a similar fashion to Python's "import from __future__".

+1 on this proposal which avoid unnecessary new keywords.


>The rationale was that given an element like this:
>
><foo tal:define="..." tal:condition="..." tal:repeat="..." />
>
>it is possible (and often acceptable) to get the current behavior by 
>rewriting like so:
>
><div tal:define="..." tal:condition="...">
>   <foo tal:repeat="..." />
></div>
>
>...while the obverse is often unacceptable:
>
><div tal:repeat="...">
>   <foo tal:define="..." tal:condition="..." />
></div>
>
>...at least without using TAL namespaced tags.  Also, it's a lot easier to 
>remember that everything repeats, rather than everthing *except* define 
>and condition.

yup

>Cheers,
>
>Evan @ 4-am

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