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

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    >> "delete" and "remove" are one of those cases where the shades
    >> of meaning are different for everybody.  I think you can find
    >> cases where delete and remove are used interchangably, and
    >> other cases where they have subtly different meanings.

    GvR> I guess it's like the fear that some Mac users used to have
    GvR> that dragging a floppy into the trash would erase it?

Maybe.  In OSX, when you drag a removable file to the trashcan, the
icon changes to suggest it'll eject it instead.  Things improve. :)

-Barry