[Zope3-dev] naming issues: id vs name, delObject vs ?

[Guido van Rossum]

> In an IRC discussion Jim, SteveA, and I talked about some naming issues
> with the current code, and we would like more input.
> 
> 1) Id vs Name

I'm strongly in favor of 'name'.  The old ZMI interface asks for an
"id" of the object, and I've always found that puzzling.  Calling it
"name" would have made it much clearer.  I suppose at the code level
the same argument applies.  (Plus, 'id' is a Python built-in function.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)