[Zope] Zope missing logic

Christopher Petrilli petrilli@digicool.com
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:48:32 -0500


On 11/12/99 12:48 PM, Anders Gaarsdal Holst at anders@colorweb.dk wrote:

> In my opinion a descision has to be made whether to make dtml both a
> template and programming language or a pure template language (and leave
> the programming to Python methods). If the first is decided then an
> attempt must be done to cleanup dtml's syntax, it is nowhere near
> logical, and develop some new dtml tags like loops etc..

You mean somehow different than <dtml-in>?  DTML is a reporting language,
and so needs some minor level of programming, but you are right that it has
too much stuff in it.  It's not, however, as easy as it looks to fix---look
at PL/SQL and the horror that it can become.

Chris
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