[ZPT] REQUEST argument

[richard@bizarsoftware.com.au]

Evan Simpson wrote:
> From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@digicool.com>
> > Maybe we *should* differentiate.  Then I propose a|b for "stop at the
> > first valid path" and a||b for "stop at the first valid path that
> > yields a true value."
> 
> Yeah, I had the same idea.  The original semantics can now be gotten through
> "python:path('a') or path('b')" or "path:(if) a | b" (since I haven't thrown
> out the modifiers, and the implementation now allows them on each alternate
> path).  As it turns out, I barely needed it for the management screens I
> converted.  If experience shows that this is a fluke, and we get a consensus
> on '||', it will be easy to add.

Just to reiterate - the behaviour you implemented is by far the most common
usage we've seen so far. We have yet to have a situation where we'd want
the subexpression to be ignored if it returned false. Explicit false values
are useful :)


    Richard

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Richard Jones
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