I repeat. I do not see how it would be possible to implement the proposed syntax without major changes in the definition of the helpers and that would be slow when compared with the current implementation. Perhaps I am wrong.
Whether or not this is a good idea, if I am wrong, I would like to see a patch that implements this for the DIV helper. Massimo On Jul 13, 7:07 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you are both missing important point: > > classes which support context would be able to be used in "with" contexts"; > Nothing would be more complex or slower - you'd only use it to make things > cleaner (move code into class _enter_() and _exit_() methods, which would > only get called (I presume) on with use anyway... If you have the code in > one place instead of scattered, there is nothing slower or more complex - to > the contrary. > > I would agree with you that this could get overused in places (e.g. if it > were used as "syntactic sugar") - but that is a different story. > > cvs reader and writer - I had trouble (had to "hack" a fix) with this in the > registration system; I never provided a patch, because could not see a > good, clean way to decouple application setup from gluon --- THIS is a way > to do that. > > I'm pretty sure if I looked, I'd find a few (not many maybe, but a few) > places this would be a good idea, solve existing problems. > > I think both of you need to just consider this a little more carefully, > that's all... > > - Yarko > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I agree with Joe. It require making object context dependent whoch > > would make things unnecessarily more complex and slower. > > > On Jul 13, 6:42 pm, Joe Barnhart <joe.barnh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I see no benefit to using PEP343 just to provide syntactic sugar for > > > this purpose. There is no REASON to use the "with" statement because > > > we're not doing anything with exception handling here. It's only > > > being used to create an input format that looks prettier to some eyes. > > > > Am I missing something?? > > > > On Jul 13, 2:40 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There are 2 interesting aspects from Luis's blogger post: > > > > > - to use with, classes need to consider contexts; > > > > - the (to me, at least) interesting example of ASP.NET's xmlwriter > > class > > > > (generating SVG dynamically) is... .NET specific; I'm off busy looking > > for > > > > a python portable idiom to use in place of his last example... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
