[ZPT] Re: TALES namespace names cannot contain '-'

[Evan Simpson]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 05:10, Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
>>I propose to extend this to allow the '-' character too.

>>Any objections to this?
> 
> 
> nope.

Yes, unless Zope 3 TALES is very unlike Zope 2 TALES.  We deliberately
restricted the syntax of namespaces to be valid variable names in Python
(and most other languages).  This allowed, for example, direct use of
the name of a namespace as a function in a Python expression:

  python:x and path('%s/%s' (base, x))

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am