[ZPT] v2 of Path Prefixes in CVS

[Chris Withers]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Fergal Daly wrote at 2003-8-31 21:13 +0100:
>  > ...> 
>  > I find the prefix expressions very confusing.
> 
> When I first saw them, me too, I thought "what a horrible semantics".
> 
> However, at second thought, it is not so unnatural:
> 
>    When you have "path/prefix:name", then the semantics seems always to
>    be: "prefix:name" specifies a function which is applied to the
>    result of evaluating "path".

This feels very confusing to me :-S

>    This is very similar (in effect) to the case when you use
>    a path "path/template" where template is a Page Template.
>    The template is applied to the result of evaluating "path"
>    (altough in a way different from direct calling).

Yeah, but that only works because of implicit acquisition, which is going away 
because it's too confusing ;-)

Chris