Re: [Webmacro-devel] Voting on the ContextTool issue?

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:30  PM, Keats wrote:

> You're forgetting about:
>
> $Request
> $Response
> $Cookie
> $Session
> $Form
> $FormList
> $CGI

all of which exist for WebContext users only.  WebContext could 
(probably) go away too if we nuked tools.

> $Variable
> $Template

I've never used these, so I'm not sure what they actually do.  If I 
remember tho, $Variable does some poking into the current context... 
which can be done with your latest changes the the $function() stuff.

> and probably some more.
>
> These guys work and have almost zero overhead if you don't use them, 
> so why
> not keep it around, at least for a while?

The real question is, does anybody use 'em enough to justify us keeping 
them around and supporting them?

eric