[Zope-dev] Re: TALES idea: tuple unpacking

[Jim Penny]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:00:37 -0400
Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com> wrote:

> 
> We've come up with a number of generally useful prefixes, BTW.  Off
> the top of my head:
> 
> call:   -- Call a named method
> int:    -- Look up an item by index

Hate this.  Looks like a typecast of some kind, int is way to overused
for this.  If you must, why not index:  ?

Jim Penny

> format: -- Perform simple formatting operations like "format:money"
> zope:   -- Access a big Zope API
> 
> It sure would be nice to have these prefixes, both in Zope 2 and Zope
> 3.
> 
> Shane
>