[ZPT] Mini proposal: repeat-define and repeat-condition

Troy Farrell troy@entheossoft.com
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:25:17 -0600


MMmmmm.  My first thought is that this would break any code I ship that 
depends on a certain order of operations :(

Jamie Heilman wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, but it increases the size of ZPT's grammar, which is big enough 
>>already IMHO...
> 
> 
> I agree.  My thought though, is why not just let the user define the
> operation order of TAL statements.  I for one would love to move
> omit-tag before atributes as afaict computing attributes and then
> throwing away the entire tag is a waste of time.[1]  I understand that
> fully customizable op order may yeild an interpreter thats too slow
> though, I haven't looked at the TAL engine to see what dynamically
> changing the grammar would entail.  Thoughts?
>