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

[Jim Fulton]

Ken Manheimer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Steve Spicklemire wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> > 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,
> 
> I think the point is that the GOF use of 'adapter' is more general - it
> applies to any translation across interfaces, while the Zope3 use will be
> for transation for the sake of adding functionality.  So we're using
> 'adapter' for a more specialized thing than the GOF, which may lead to
> some confusion, and maybe some conflict down the road.

No, the GoF is more specific. The intent of GoF is just to do
interface translation. We'll do both interface translation
and functionality augmentation.

Jim


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