[Zope3-dev] Re: Providing flexible adapters

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:15 AM 2/26/02 -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:

>I'm trying to reuse concepts from the Python language.  Every object in 
>Python is implicitly "referenceable".  I do not believe there is a need to 
>further abstract the concept.

Hrm.  IExternalReference and IExternallyReferenceable?  The names can 
change, if the ones I originally suggested are confusing.

I was reusing terms from JNDI, which has the notions of a Reference and 
Referenceables.  (class 'javax.naming.Reference' and interface 
'javax.naming.Referenceable', respectively).  Of course, Java's interface 
names are qualified with packages, which clarifies the context of what is 
being meant by "reference" as a reference by *name*.  Presumably, whatever 
interface is used for this would similarly qualify its notion of reference 
to be this type of "external" or "named" or "persistable" referencing.