[Zope] (no subject)

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:31 AM
> To: djay@lucent.com
> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: RE: [Zope] (no subject)
> 
> 
> Jay, Dylan writes:
>  > ...
>  > Perhaps another example will prove its uglyness.
>  > 
>  >  <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and 
> this().has_key(some_value) and
>  > _[some_value] == 'a property value' and
>  > AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')">
>  >   <a href="a_url">
>  >  </dtml-if>
>  >   link text
>  >  <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and 
> this().has_key(some_value) and
>  > _[some_value] == 'a property value' and
>  > AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')">
>  >    </a>
>  >  <dtml-else>
>  >    (no link available)
>  >  </dtml-if>
>  > 
>  > 
>  > or
>  > 
>  > <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and 
> this().has_key(some_value) and
>  > _[some_value] == 'a property value' and
>  > AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')">
>  >   <a href="a_url">
>  > <dtml-always>
>  >   link text
>  > <dtml-else>
>  >   (no link currently available)
>  > <dtml-then>
>  >   </a>
>  > </dtml-if>
>  > 
>  > Now which looks cleaner?
> You could use "dtml-let" to avoid the (admittedly) ugly
> repetition of the condition.

You could but this is something I end up doing a lot esp with the way
hyperlinks work. Syntax to help would make it cleaner. It is not to much of
a pollution of the name space as 'always' and 'then' would only be active
inside an if statement.