[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] DTML Syntax contd. + rant

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> > to methods (and the whole quoted and unquoted thing kicks in, and suddenly
> > they have to understand about the _ namespace, and the magic variables to
> > pass a DTML method to make it work).
> 
> well, this is beyond the above outlined problem domain.  So we have a
> seperate problem, not a DTML problem, but a lack of a solution problem.

Let me add here that in many cases passing arguments to DTML Methods can
be avoided if acquisition and factoring are properly employed. Seems to me
that newcomers to Zope thing in terms of defining functions and calling
them with parameters and thus hitting the namespace issues. Maybe better
explanations (with clear examples) are needed to expose acquisition even
more.

My thoughts ...

Pavlos