Chris McDonough wrote: > Thomas Lotze wrote: >> Martijn Faassen wrote: >> >>> * a utility never has a connection. That's because it already got >>> instantiated long before the lookup takes place. >> Isn't it the other way around: A utility never has a connection to any >> adapted object, and that's *why we can* instantiate it long before the >> lookup takes place. >> >> I think the difference between these two perspectives may have to do with >> why some people in this discussion confuse (as I see it) the concepts of >> instance vs. factory registration and adapter vs. utility lookup. > > I'm not confused. I understand this worldview. > > I'm just arguing that this worldview is less understandable for new users and > maintenance programmers than it would be to leave them distinct (or to > "unify" > them by providing an API like "lookup" which never calls the result of an > adaptation). The conceptual beauty of how they might be otherwise similar is > meaningless to new users and maintenance programmers.
... and possibly hostile to people who've educated themselves about the current patterns and nomenclature. Anyway, I get the feeling we've moved on, and that this issue is eclipsing the more worthwhile discussion about API design and consistency, which I think we all want. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ 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 )
