R: [Zope] Discussion: Best practice site struture (LONG)

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:33:45AM +0200, Max M wrote:
> The correct way to ensure that there are no dangling relations naturally 
> is to create a method in any product being related to like (from the top 
> of my head)::
> 
>     def manage_beforeDelete(self):
>         self.relations.delete(self)
> 
> Then things happens cleanly.

But that means that every class you want to relate has to know
about relations. I thought the relations were completely external
to the related objects? Seems like you're breaking encapsulation.

--PW