On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Chris McDonough wrote: > > Off the top of my head, another way to think of this might be to say > > that the 'dict access' is basically looking up a named utility > > providing a very generic marker interface, e.g. > > zope.component.interfaces.IUtility or even just > > zope.interface.Interface. That way reg['foo'] == getUtility(IUtility, > > name='foo'). Obviously, assignment would register in the same way. > > > > I'm not sure it's "better", though. :) > > That would also be fine, and it would normalize things a bit, although the > implementation would be harder and it would result in slower lookups. But > if it made folks feel better than inheriting from dict, I'd be +1 on it.
I have not read the entire thread, but Martin's suggestion using zope.interface.Interface makes a lot to sense to me as the dict syntax becomes syntactic sugar and a simplification when desired. Regards, Stephan -- Entrepreneur and Software Geek Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
