[Zope-dev] TALES idea: tuple unpacking

[Chris Withers]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> - Use a Python-like sequence unpacking syntax.  This is probably most
>   comfortable to template authors who are Python programmers first,
>   and web guys (or gals!) second.

-0 for feature creap

> - Use the namespace qualifiers to get an adapter to handle converting
>   container lookup to a sequence indexing operation.  This plays off
>   the machinery being built anyway, so is quite attractive, and
>   doesn't affect the basic syntax or implementation of TAL, but only
>   of the TALES expression engine.  This is very attractive because it
>   pushes the support for this feature somewhere the application
>   controls in as much detail as it wants.

+1 'cos I like the way this leverages the stuf we added to TALES at the last UK 
sprint...

cheers,

Chris