[Zope] how to avoid REQUEST.set

[Chris McDonough]

I think REQUEST.set is fine here.  It just has an ugly spelling because 
nobody will admit it's necessary and everybody pretends they don't do 
it.  ;-)

> I dislike the 'set' hammer too, but there's one scenario in which it
> seems to be unavoidable: if you need to set a variable which must be
> accessed from several templates.  For example, I may have a
> navigation bar in one template, the colour of which I want to change
> depending on tests which take place in a content template.  Since
> <dtml-let> can't span more than one template, is there any other way
> of manipulating a global namespace in the context of a single
> request?
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