"Jay, Dylan" wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Marco Mariani [mailto:m.mariani@imola.nettuno.it] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:39 PM To: Jay, Dylan Subject: Re: [Zope] (no subject)
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:56:39PM +1000, Jay, Dylan wrote:
<dtml-if X> <a href="a_url"> link text </a> <dtml-else> link text (no link...) </dtml-if>
yes but the repitition of "link text" could be a real pain if "link_text" is big. Repitition is always a maintance nightmare.
So is dtml-always.
No thats not the same thing. If I have a complex expression for X and it needs to be changed then it will have to be changed in two places. If I forget to update it in both places I would create a bug. My proposal elegently avoids this problem.
Personally, if I have a complicated expression I use in multiple places, I make it into it's own method, and call that from wherever I need it. But then again, I am rather lazy like that. ;-) Bill