[Zope3-dev] Bringing the name game to a close, for now

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hmm.. I guess it depends on how you look at it. Functionality is only 
"new" for a little while. Then it's "old". ;-) In any case, new or old, 
it requires an interface, and if you're modifying, or expanding your 
class to provide such an interface, it smells a lot like an adaptor. ;-) 
I guess in the "purest" sense, and adaptor adapts existing functionality 
onto an alternative interface. But my point is that functionality is 
viewed as "new" or "old" depending on the reference point of the 
observer, not as an intrinsic property of the software itself.

-steve

On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 03:05 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

> In Zope 3, the things currently called adapters will usually be used
> to provide new functionality. They will not only be used to translate
> interfaces.
>
> Jim
>