Tres Seaver wrote: >>>>>>>- Many of the objected-to directives exist precisely because people >>>>>>>did not want to type the much more verbose equivalents which were >>>>>>>the original, "cleaner" spellings. >>>>>> >>>>>>Or perhaps people just thought that people wouldn't want to type in some >>>>>>extra stuff. Because I think they do if it helps them remember and >>>>>>understand better. >>>> >>>>The origin of the "dead chicken" meme, was Guido (and others) who >>>>objected to the mistake-prone typing required by the earliest set of >>>>directievs we had; Guido called them "dead chickens". >>> >>>If you see any dead chicken around the corner in my Reducing the amount >>>fo ZCML directives proposal, please let me know in detail. > > I'm just trying to point out that we added "convenience" directives in > order to address earlier usability complaints about the (theoretically > cleaner) original directive set.
I realize that and I think at least the concern was valid. As for the solution, I rather prefer the convenience (which reads for me as "automation" when it get rids of dead chicken direcives) to be in Python. Philipp _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com