Re: A "philosophical" question

2008-02-15 Thread dreamingbear
> You don't need this extra functionality because you can already do it. > Just use normal programming techniques and factor out the common stuff. > To wit ... > > In one project I'm working on at the moment, there's some stuff I need > to do in every view for a particular cluster of views. So in

A "philosophical" question

2008-02-15 Thread dreamingbear
While studying Django (yes, I'm a newbie) and being dutifully impressed by the beauty and coherence of the general architecture of the whole thing, I found myself wondering this question: Why template context processors are passes a request object instead of the context itself. As I see it, havi