[Zope-dev] ZClasses - Two glaring omissions

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:34:10 +0000


There was lots of talk a while back about redoing ZClasses.

I wonder what ever happened to that?

cheers,

Chris

Andy McKay wrote:
> 
> Of course all those points can be done in python, im assuming you are
> talking about ZClasses.
> 
> --
>   Andy McKay, Developer.
>   ActiveState.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Limi" <alexander@mp3.no>
> To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:35 AM
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Two glaring omissions
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working with Zope for almost two years now, and there are two
> > things that I feel is missing in the interface:
> >
> > 1. The ability to add a Base class after the class is created
> >
> > 2. The ability to rename properties after instances of the classes have
> >    been created (and have the data in those fields preserved)
> >
> > Are there any technical reasons why these are not present? I know it is
> > possible to add base classes in retrospect via the hack described in
> >
> > http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/ChangingBaseClasses
> >
> > but are there plans for making this easier?
> >
> > As for #2, it is quite annoying and counter-productive not being able to
> > change a variable name that was decided a long time ago, or maybe by
> > others simply because there exist instantiated objects of that type.
> >
> > Both of the above are pretty essential OO techniques (for me, at least),
> > and hinder my work quite a lot by not being there.
> >
> > Any chance of these being fixed at all? Or are there reasons that I do not
> > know about that makes this impossible?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Limi
> > alexander@mp3.no
> >
> >
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