[ZPT] Fwd: Use-cases for strictinsert=True?

[Fred Drake]

On 9/20/05, Tonico Strasser <contact_tonico at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Just for my understanding: would it be possible to dynamically create
> macros with strictinsert=True?:
>
> <div
>    tal:repeat="name python: ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')"
>    tal:replace="structure string:&lt;div metal:define-macro='$name'/&gt;"
>    />
>
> *shudder*

That's a scary thought!

Actually, that probably executes just fine: it defines a macro,
nothing uses it (except possibly other things in the same bit of
dynamically generated text?), and then it's thrown away.

I'd certainly not expect it to pollute the outer environment.


  -Fred

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