[Zope3-dev] Re: Providing flexible adapters

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:06 PM 2/26/02 +0000, Steve Alexander wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>Then maybe there should be an IReferenceable adapter that adapts 
>>anything, by looking up a placeful utility.
>
>Surely an IReference adapter would be more useful?

This would then require the use of the ZCA, and I'd like this to be usable 
outside ZCA.  Having IReferenceable means that objects can supply their own 
reference, without *being* their own reference, or supplying an extraneous 
(to them) adapter.  Objects which did this would be usable in applications 
with or without the ZCA.  Apps using ZCA look up an adapter (which just 
returns the original object), non-ZCA apps just expect an IReferenceable to 
start with.