[ZPT] Re: RFC: TALES adapters and TAL/Tales variable namespaces

[Tonico Strasser]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> Evan Simpson wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>> IMO, if we take this route, we should think of the notation as
>>> providing an alternate traversal operator.  That is, there is
>>> syntax that either modifies or replaces "/", so of the examples
>>> above, only:
>>>
>>>  context/*dc/title
>>
>>
>>
>> In that case, I'd be happy to consider adaptation as orthogonal to my 
>> path prefixes. 
> 
> 
> Yup.
> 
>  > Might as well drop the slash and go with the previous
> 
>> suggestion:
>>
>> context*dc/title
>>
>> I can easily read the star as an adaptation operator, even with 
>> multiple applications.
> 
> 
> On IRC, Martijn Faassen suggested (brainstormed really :) '#', as in:
> 
>   context#dc/title
> 
> I like this becase # kinda looks like a special kind of slash. :)

Hm, special kind of slash ... what about

context\dc/title

Tonico
(Not yet a Python developer.)