[Zope-dev] _p_deactivate() and _v_ variables?

[Chris Withers]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote at 2003-10-8 21:22 +0100:
>  > Casey Duncan wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I would argue that a better plan would be to only use _v_ vars for completely 
>  > > disposable data only. The application should expect that this values will be 
>  > > gone at any random time, not just at transaction boundaries.
>  > 
>  > I agree with this. How do we go about find code that uses the assumption that 
>  > _v_ stuff won't change unless it's at a transaction boundary?
> 
> This will invalidate many current uses:
> 
>   *  use for database connections

Not really, I would expect a DA to just re-connect if it got garbage collected...

>   *  use for skin data

This seems to be considered a bug...

>   *  ...

How do we go about finding these? ;-)

Chris