[Zope] The new DTML syntax

[Andrew Lahser]

Petru Paler <ppetru@bv.ro> said: 

> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 06:09:48PM +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> 
> > Am I the only one who does not take particularly kindly to the new DTML
> > syntax? Well, I guess I might be. :)  Before you bring forth the
> > lynching implements, though, hear me out.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > Imho, Cold Fusion's CFML syntax does one notch better than DTML because
> > it only devotes two characters ("CF") to distinguishing Cold Fusion tags
> > from other markup, so you have keywords such as "cfquery", "cfoutput",
> > and so on. Easily recognizable, short, sweet, easy to type. On the other
> > hand, it uses a proprietary syntax for in-place variable insertion (eg.,
> > "#Name#" inserts the variable Name), so it's not all bliss.
> 
>    So you suggest using somethig like "dtif" or "dt-if" ?
> 
> -Petru
> 

Perhaps "zif", "zin" "zlet" ?

Andrew 

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