[ZPT] "structure" and TAL interpretation

[Dieter Maurer]

Fred Drake wrote at 2004-7-23 11:33 -0400:
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:19:20 +0100, Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie> wrote:
>> So I think the docs don't correspond with the current behaviour at all.
>> Presumably anyone using this found it by accident or by reading the code,
>
>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.

It is not obscure -- it is in direct violation of the specification.
This means, it is a bug.

I would fix the bug and let the implementation behave as the
specification says it should...

-- 
Dieter