Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
Tres Seaver wrote:
+ @deprecate("The 'first' method has been deprecated and will disappear " + "in Zope 2.12. Use the 'start' property instead.") def first(self, name=None): if self.start: return True return not self.same_part(name, self._last, self.item)
+ @deprecate("The 'last' method has been deprecated and will disappear " + "in Zope 2.12. Use the 'end' property instead.") def last(self, name=None): if self.end: return True
I don't think deprecating 'first' and 'last' is appropriate here: they *aren't* synonyms for 'start' and 'end; they are used to implement sort-break processing. Here is the comment from the checkin which initially documented them (http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zpt/2001-December/002598.html):
This sounds sensible. Thanks for the pointer. I'll undeprecate them :).
I'll add nonetheless that neither 'first' nor 'last' nor 'nextIndex' are required by the ZPT spec (http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/RepeatVariable). Hence, Zope 3 just doesn't have them. I can still see a use case for 'first' and 'last' which is why I'll do my best to continue to support them. Philipp