-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
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.
This is a case for *expanding* what Z3 has: it isn't "right by default", you know, especially when it comes to pieces of Z2 technology which it has forked. For instance, I know of several DTML fixes done since Z3 forked off zope.documenttemplate: they should be "forward-ported", but may languish due to lack of care. ZPT is different: is has been in heavy production use, with *lots* more attention to "real world" use cases than the Z3 version would have gotten until only recently. Let's use some caution about harmonizing the two. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEchHL+gerLs4ltQ4RAif7AKCM7ge713kNc+uW2xECLewHDGk45QCeKNOw tpC42LYQMBinUalgw+gGxzI= =Q8H2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com