[Zope-dev] Re: names starting with '@' are not reserved

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 1:06 PM, yuppie wrote:
> I'm not concerned about my own app code. I know the problem and how  
> to fix it.
>
> And I'm not concerned about people like you who monkeypatch that  
> code. You know that monkeypatching is always on your own risk and  
> you know how to modify your monkey patch even if more code is  
> changed than 'bad_id'.
>
> I'm concerned about the people we encourage to use Five technology.  
> Views are a major feature of Five. Should we warn people not to use  
> views? Or instruct them how to patch Zope 2 to protect views  
> against being masked by content IDs?

IMO, we should fix it "right" and live with the status quo until we  
do (which is that content ids can shadow views).  I don't think it's  
worth it to hack it in the meantime.  It just doesn't seem like that  
much of an emergency, IMO.

- C