[ZPT] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Vote] PEP308 voting began

[Evan Simpson]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> I was going to suggest the following variation.  A tick at the beginning 
> of an expression would imply a string.
> 
> <div tal:replace="if:options/x then:'yes' else:'no'">
> 
> ... then I realized it was so close to Python that it would generate 
> confusion. :-)

Hmm.  I was thinking along parallel lines about numbers.  Since variable 
names (and therefore paths) must start with a letter, we could interpret 
a path starting with a digit as a numeric literal, thus allowing the 
occasional 'x | python:42' to be written 'x | 42'.

Sanity check?  There's a lot of lubricant on this slope.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am