Peter Royal wrote:
> On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:29 am, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
>>Personally I don't like contexts, they smell of "global variables" to me.
>
>
> They are, but only in the context of a container :)
>
>
>>Aren't ComponentManagers(nowLocators) doing a similar thing (ie giving a
>>class based on a name-role)?
>
>
> Not exactly. For some examples, in Phoenix a block is actually passed an
> instance of a BlockContext, from which a block can determine base directory
> that the block is running in as well as its configured name. It is my
> understanding that the Context was designed for the passage of runtime
> information from the container to components.
In reality, it can be used to do anything.
It's too generic to be made to enforce anything;
if a Container wants to tell something to its child,
why not simply call a child's method, instead of giving the child
a handle, which really makes the child a container itself.
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