History for TooManyWaysToDoIt

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Poster Children

  - _[] and _.getitem().

  - dtml-let, _.namespace(), and REQUEST.set() (though granted, REQUEST.set gives different functionality).

  - _.DateTime() and ZopeTime().

Rationale

  It's for content managers.  There needs to be one way to do it that works
  in all contexts, so that people aren't bitten by changes in expected
  functionality, like &lt;dtml-var expr="_![foo]"&gt; versus &lt;dtml-var
  expr="_![foo].property"&gt;

  Some of these things, like _.namespace(), are there for hysterical
  reasons, but one should be canonicalized, the other deprecated, and phased
  out over some specified period.
  
-- MindLace

And Jeffrey Says

  The shortcuts are *really* annoying.  The fact that _.namespace() can be just _() 
  is making DTML Scripting become almost harder to read than APL!  exprs==evil.