Excellent, this sounds like exactly what I need to fix. Can you send the patch along to me? "Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> writes:

At 02:02 PM 9/8/99 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

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Heh, feels strange to reply to myself, but as I got no replies before, maybe I need to elaborate a bit. The original question is below.

My main confusion is just how do I set a variable that is dynamically scoped without having to use dtml-with or dtml-let, both of which require matching closing tags?

FYI, I have just written a patch for DT_Let.py that adds two new tags, 'local' and 'set'. They are used like this:

<!--#local myvar1="0" myvar2=somevar-->

<!--#set myvar1="myvar1+myvar2"--> ... <!--#set myvar2="myvar2+1"-->

<!--#/local-->

Both <!--#local--> blocks and <!--#set--> tags are dynamically scoped and <!--#set--> can be used anywhere as long as there is an enclosing <!--#local--> block defining the variable you want to set. You can only set variables which are defined by the innermost <!--#local--> block, but you can reset their value any number of times, even within the same <!--#set--> tag.

I am currently testing this code in an alpha app, but will be submitting it some time in the near future to Digital Creations for consideration of inclusion in future Zope versions.

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