On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > True. For me utilities are tools. Like CMFs portal_whatever. But in > Zope3 even small stupid singleton objects are utilities in some cases, > and that is confusing for a beginner.
I wonder how many typical Python programmers know the term "singleton". Though it's not unusual for there to be exactly one instance of a class in a process, it's pretty unusual to think about that as a valuable aspect of a class. Which for the traditional definition of singleton, it very much is. -1 for calling utilities singletons, since that has nothing to do with their usage. +1 for calling them utilities, since that has everything to do with how they're used. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )
