[Zope] Use of lambda expression in DTML

[Lalo Martins]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:05:14PM -0700, Jonothan Farr wrote:
> > In brief: I get a NameError when invoking "filter(...)" from DTML.  I thought
> > this was a built-in python method, so I'm a bit puzzled.
> 
> Certain built-ins are not available in dtml for security and other reasons,
> filter and lambda are among them. As far as I know, you'll need to use an
> external method to do this or think of another way to do it in dtml.

One big question is: what's wrong with filter, map and lambda?
They can make a lot of code a lot simpler, specially for people
who have a background in functional programming.

IIRC there is nothing wrong with them - only that all builtins
were disabled and some specific few were re-enabled, and then
those three were overlooked.

Count one vote for getting them back (_.lambda, _.filter, _.map
is fine enough, of course).

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