[Zope] Is Zope syntax inconsistent ?

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Phil Harris wrote:

> As someone earlier today on the list said, "if it's in quotes it's python"
> (or something similar).
> 
> Basically Python rules apply when using any expressions in zope dtml-var and
> other tags.

I still think it's an inconsistent syntax.  It should be possible (by
overriding __coerce__, I think?  I haven't had time to look this up yet)
to make the == operator do something different.  AUTHENTICATED_USER is
often used as a string (at least what I've seen of it ...)

Also, "if it's in quotes it's in python", why do I need to do _.str()?  
why does dir() not work?  It seems like some pretty horribly munged sort
of python...

> > I would expect an object to behave consistently wherever it was used - so
> > if it renders/returns/evaluates to 'zope' inside a dtml-var I would expect
> > it equally to render/return/evaluate to 'zope' inside a dtml-if.

> > If it doesn't then surely we have an inconsistent syntax. How do we know
> > how any object is going to behave inside a dtml tag ?


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