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

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> 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.

Also, FWIW, it just occurs to me that even though I do use Five, I've  
never generated a "@@" URL.  It appears purely optional to use the  
"@@" syntax in the URL to call a view.  Most of the examples I've  
seen out there don't use it either.

- C