[Grok-dev] Re: you can comma separate directives

[Christian Theune]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:07:59AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
>> What fun!  It just occurred to be that, because directives just
>> introspect the stack, but don't return any useful value "into" the
>> class-declaration code block they're part of, you can stack them on a
>> single line with commas:
>>
>>     class Fish(grok.View):
>>         grok.context(MyApp), grok.name('fish')
>>
>> That will be helpful the next time a stack of directives threatens to
>> push my actual code down off of the bottom of the screen.
>
> You could've also used a semicolon :). But yeah, it's pretty cool,  
> albeit a bit confusing...

Other weird-looking possibilities:

    directives = grok.context(MyApp) = grok.name('fish')

    grok.context(MyApp) + grok.name('fish')

Hooray for result-less side-effect-based programming. :)

Christian

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