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

[Shane Hathaway]

Evan Simpson wrote:
> 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.

Yep.  This is how DTML went awry.

Shane