[Zope3-dev] More name game suggestions

[Shane Hathaway]

Florent Guillaume wrote:

> By the way would CMF Tools be akin to services or utilities ? Or it
> depends ? :)
> 
> I'd see most of them as services, but would like to be sure...

BTW while I'm in this thread, I thought I'd throw out one more argument 
against the word "adapter". :-)

The adapter design pattern has two parts, intent and implementation. 
You are guided to consider using an adapter when you have two classes 
that can't quite talk to each other.  You create an adapter to translate 
one of the interfaces into the other interface.

The intent of features is different.  You are supposed to create a 
feature when you want to add capabilities to your application.  The 
implementation, however, is the same.

Imagine a recipe book where all the titles of the recipes are written as 
an abbreviated chemical formula.  The formula describes the results of 
mixing the ingredients, but does that help you find the recipe for a 
pie?  "Adapter" describes what you get, but "feature" describes why you 
want to use the pattern.

OTOH English words are short and already overloaded, especially in the 
tech world.  By using the word "adapter" we are asserting the right to 
change its meaning, but English gives everyone that right, so maybe it's 
okay. :-)

Shane