[Zope-dev] make zope.component.registry.Components inherit from dict?

[Martin Aspeli]

Martin Aspeli wrote:

> I *do* actually like the "named IAnonymousUtility" thing as a 
> convenience, because it retains some consistency. Maybe it's slower, 
> which would be a negative. But it also allows all the other ZCA stuff 
> (overriding, introspection, global/local variants, etc) and API: we're 
> just introducing a convenience.

Oh, and here's another reason: this allows registration at ZCML 
configuration time rather than import time (since we're not setting it 
up in Python) without inventing new directives:

   <utilty
     name="root"
     object=".roots.myRoot"
     provides="zope.component.IAnonymousUtility"
     />

Or in Grok speak:

     grok.global_utility(myRoot, IAnonymousUtility, name="root")

I think we'd want a less icky name than IAnonymousUtility, though.

Martin

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