[Zope3-dev] Notations for paths

[Jim Fulton]

Phillip,

I agree with your arguments about using objects for paths. I think that,
as usual, they are well reasoned and persuasive.

But :)

In the case of paths, I'd like to stick with unicode strings for the
simple reasons that:

- People are very accustomed to using strings to express paths,

- Paths are used all over the place, so it should be really easy
   to express them,

- Paths will often be used in places where it's inconventient to
   call constructors to create objects.

I would like to stop using sequences as an alternate canonical
representation. I think that this was a mistake on my part in the
first place.

Does anybody want to try to take this refactoring job on before
the alpha?

Jim

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