[Zope-Perl] Python and Perl scripts

[Michel Pelletier]

Greetings,

Well, Jim, Evan, Brian and I pow-wowed yesterday and came up with an
interesting change.  The world 'Method' is too overlaoded, as it means
too much to too many people.  Also, Python Methods don't work like
methods in python, which was my argument, but they are very useful and
there are sound reasons for them working like they do (which J, E and B
convinced me of yesterdat).  We have decided to change the name of
Python Methods to something else, the current candidate being 'Python
Script'.

'Script' objects make a lot of sense, they don't overload the concept of
methods, they describe an action that people commonly want to do (script
the web) and they clear up a lot of potential confusion for newbie and
old-hat alike.

The bonus for all of this is that the only thing that needs to change is
the name.  Which name is still an issue though, and we want your input. 
what do you think of the idea of Perl Script objects?

The other issue, for the sake of documentation, is variable binding
(which was the root of our disagreement yest. Python Methods do not bind
variables and argument like methods in python do).  From what I can see,
Perl Methods seem to get 'self' pass in as a first argument.  Is this
all there is too it or are there more details?  Python Methods have five
special variables (defined on the bindings tab) that get created in the
namespace of the method.  Should perl methods work the same way and not
have special variables passed in as arguments?  This would probably be
more consistent with the Python model, and since 'self' will probably
not be the name of the variable bound to either the container or the
context it should be more explicit for perl methods also.

What do you think?

-Michel