Suggestion: lobby Brian Lloyd about this. As Chris mentioned, reducing the "coefficient of complexity" is something he and I are focused on. Shorthand notations are convenient, but when they get inconsistent, you wind up with the other P language. :^) --Paul Chris Withers wrote:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
Or, how about a <dtml-expr> tag (which could even start out as a simple synonym for <dtml-var>) so that people won't be confused about what is python and what is a variable lookup with the special calling properties.
This is a great idea :-)
New------------ Old------------------------------- <dtml-var x> <dtml-var x> <dtml-var name="x"> <dtml-expr "x"> <dtml-var expr="x"> <dtml-var "x">
cheers,
Chris
PS: didn't Paul Everitt comment on this in the Perl thread?
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