[Zope3-dev] Second ZOPE 3 mini- NEWSLETTER (and kinda large glossary)

[Gary Poster]

Point taken: I lost accuracy in my pursuit of friendliness.  Would you
buy "reside in the traversable Zope tree"?

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 11:28, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:15 AM 10/31/02 -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
> >
> >   [NEW]
> >   Placeful: An adjective describing an object that resides in the *ZODB*
> >   (and so is persistent) and is potentially pertinent only to the ZODB
> >   branch (or "folder" and all children) in which it resides.  Similar
> >   to standard programming "local" concept of variables.  Opposite of
> >   *Placeless*.
> >
> >   [NEW]
> >   Placeless: An adjective describing an object that resides outside
> >   of the typically addressed Zope database, and is available to all
> >   objects irresepective of their location in the ZODB (or what "folder"
> >   they reside in).  Usually not persistent, but instantiated in memory
> >   on each program start.  Somewhat similar to standard programming
> >   "global" concept of variables.  Opposite of *Placeful*.
> 
> Hm.  I don't think that these terms have anything to do with ZODB, since 
> they can also be applied to non-Persistent objects.  All that placefulness 
> requires is that it be "local" rather than "global" in scope of the 
> application.
> 
> At least, if *I* understand it correctly, which isn't certain.  ;)  But I'd 
> like it to be true, since I expect to have quite a lot of "placeful" things 
> in Zope 3 that *aren't* persistent and won't be going anywhere near ZODB.
>