[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: TALES adapters and TAL/Tales variable namespaces

[Chris Withers]

How does:

>> "take adapter, apply to it object with name as a parameter"
> 
> That's close to the meaning of Even Simpson's Zope 2 ':' extension.
> Which is why we don't want to use this syntax for adapters.

...differ from:

> Well, what we did in bristol, enabled:
> 
>   my_content_object/zope:title
> 
> Which really gets a special adapter named "zope"
> which exposes zapi-like functionality for ZPT.

?

>> I'm afraid neither of those means anything to me so your equivalency 
>> makes so sense :-S
> 
> right, which is why we want to pick a different syntax.

When I understand the difference, I hope I'll agree :-)

>>> Steve pointed out some problems with the syntax, which
>>> the above examples should make obvious.
>>
>> Hurm :-S Don't suppose you have a use for that off hand?
> 
> Use for what?

I wish I could excuse that as a typo :-S

"Don't suppose you have a URL for that off hand?"

cheers,

Chris

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