[Zope-CMF] Skins inheriting skinpaths?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> >>I'm extremely wary of creating new little sub-languages that look like 
> >>other things (TALES in this case...) but that confuse the hell out of 
> >>users because they don't actually work like the language they're 
> >>emulating.
> >>
> >>What makes you sure this won't happen in this case?
> >
> >uh... nothing.
> >ok then $foo.
> 
> How is that different in terms of the concern I have?

it doesn't look quite as much as TALES.
Look, I'd be happy to stick with my first idea, skin:foo. 
A couple days ago, you seemed to prefer $foo over skin:foo.
I'm really confused as to what you want.  Quoting your reply to
Christian's reply to me:

>Paul Winkler wrote:
>>>>Basic:
>>>>  custom, zpt_topic, zpt_content, zpt_generic, zpt_control, skin:Core
>>>
>>>why not simply $Core ? ;-) Would be variable-like syntax as in actions
>>>etc.   
>
>I'd prefer to see them as full-blown TALES expressions rather than a
>halfway
>house, but yeah, that'd be cool :-)
>
>cheers,
>
>Chris

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