[Zope-CMF] adding 'context' as an alias for 'object' in action expressions
yuppie
y.2008 at wcm-solutions.de
Sat Nov 29 18:27:44 EST 2008
David Glick wrote:
> Does anyone have an objection to me adding 'context' as an alias for
> 'object' in the expression context that is built when executing CMF
> action expressions (in getExprContext in CMFCore/Expression.py)? This
> would remove one common source of minor confusion for beginning
> CMF/Plone developers (namely, having to use object in action expressions
> when you use context everywhere else).
-1
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
'context' is deprecated for this kind of expressions, CMF uses 'object'
everywhere. Supporting 'object' *and* 'context' or switching from
'object' to 'context' will cause even more confusion.
Please see this thread
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2005-March/021990.html
with this result
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2005-March/021999.html
Cheers, Yuppie
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