[ZPT] "structure" and TAL interpretation

[Evan Simpson]

Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> Fred Drake wrote:
>> Agreed.  The current behavior is an undocumented extension, so is
>> generally a bad idea.  My concern about simply fixing it is that it's
>> been there a while and someone could actually be relying on it.  ;-( 
>> It's *really* obscure, but people use lots of obscure things in Zope
>> 2.
> 
> 
> Well, there's almost always ways to improve things without breaking 
> backwards compatibility...

I'd be strongly in favor of dropping this behavior, or at the very least 
giving it a new keyword ('tal' or 'code', perhaps).  It is inefficient, 
hardly ever or never used, and should be a distinct and explicit choice 
on the coder's part.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am