on 5/10/02 12:47 AM, Jeffrey P Shell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrivened: > > You would need something to close off the 'if' statement, otherwise, a > document full of 'if' statements and no 'else' ones could fill up a stack > needlessly.
What's so bad about that? The stack wouldn't carry over after <html></html> or <body></body> - couldn't practically more than 1000's - insignificant! > > You would at the very least need something like: > <condition> > <if>...</if> > <elif>...</elif> > <else>...</else> > </condition> > > Which would ensure / cut back on needless growth of stacks and/or global > variables. > > Personally, I think the way Page Templates can do it (via a 'not' > expression) is fine. When I used it today (and in the past), I never felt > myself missing 'else', because there's not really an 'if' to begin with. > Just conditions. It keeps TAL light, and lets TALES take on the lifting of > how to write those conditions. Point is, it's slow and inefficient, and a clunky syntax. Reasons the whole idea of 'else' was invented in the first place. I worry, that ZPT is benchmarked 4x slower than DTML and it's becoming the standard - not a step forward. And issue like this haven't been satisfactorily resolved. I think, if it's going to have logic in there, make it sufficiently powerful and efficient. Otherwise get rid of it altogether, unapologetically, and require Python for such things.... _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
