[Zope3-dev] Notations for paths

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:52:08 +0000


Jim Fulton wrote:
> 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?

I can take it on for the ObjectHub package.

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Steve Alexander