ok make you search for all occurrences in applications/example/ and gluon/
On Oct 29, 2:46 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:36 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > I hate these kind of changes because they affect syntax highlighing > > and a lot of example pages. Do you feel strongly about this? > > Not so strongly. Only that a difference in name suggests a difference > in meaning, and when that's not true, it's confusing. > > I'll generate a patch that'll let you decide what to keep. > > > > > On Oct 29, 12:25 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > >>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:57 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > >>>> send me a patch > > >>> OK. > > >>> Do you want to strip spaces? White space generally? If so, should > >>> IS_NULL_OR do the same? > > >> I see that stripping is there already. > > >> Another question: why isn't IS_NULL_OR called IS_EMPTY_OR? Is there a > >> distinction intended between null and empty (in this context)? > > >> If they're the same, how about changing IS_NULL_OR to IS_EMPTY_OR, > >> for > >> consistency, and preserving IS_NULL_OR as a deprecated alias for > >> IS_EMPTY_OR? > > >>>> On Oct 29, 11:31 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:23 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > >>>>>> You can already do that by piping cleanup which would remove > >>>>>> unmached > >>>>>> charatacters or using IS_MATCH() validator. > > >>>>> CLEANUP obviates the need for any change at all (and it doesn't > >>>>> really > >>>>> do what I'm suggesting). MATCH might. But the point of the change > >>>>> you're suggesting is the same as the one I'm suggesting: IS_EMPTY > >>>>> should match non-empty strings that "count as empty". It's > >>>>> syntactic > >>>>> sugar merely, but sweet nonetheless. > > >>>>>> On Oct 29, 11:18 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > >>>>>>>> I do not disagree. Shall we make is_not_empty strip? > > >>>>>>> If it's going to change, how about (also) an optional argument, > >>>>>>> defaulting to None, that's a string that counts as empty? I'm > >>>>>>> thinking > >>>>>>> of the case in which you put instructions to the user in a > >>>>>>> field, > >>>>>>> like > >>>>>>> "first name" in the first_name field. In that case, it'd be > >>>>>>> convenient > >>>>>>> of "first name" counted as EMPTY. > > >>>>>>>> On Oct 29, 10:43 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Ok, I guess I just figured that IS_NOT_EMPTY would check for > >>>>>>>>> if > >>>>>>>>> the > >>>>>>>>> string > >>>>>>>>> was blank as well. > > >>>>>>>>> Thanks for clarifying > > >>>>>>>>> -Thadeus > > >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM, mdipierro > >>>>>>>>> <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> tually is CLEANUP() or CLENAUP(regex='.') that does that. > >>>>>>>>>> I do not think we agreed to anything el > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
