[Zope] The new DTML syntax

[Robin Becker]

In article <19990805211330.A638@bv.ro>, Petru Paler <ppetru@bv.ro>
writes
>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" ?
how about zif zin zcall zelse etc
>
>-Petru
>
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Robin Becker