[Zope3-dev] Making a JobBoardEditView, issues

[Jim Fulton]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> 
> On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 01:26  PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> 

...

>> On a different topic, in your blog, in your XMLRPCView subclass
>> you do:
>>
>>     __implements__ = XMLRPCView.__implements__
>>
>> Is there a technical or stylistic reason for doing this?  I would
>> think leaving it out would be equivalent, as __implements__ would
>> be inherited from the base class, right?  If it is important to
>> do this, I think I should make a note in the style guide.
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's important to do it, but Jim Fulton once described 
> it as - "I don't necessarily want to implicitly sign on for all of my 
> parents contracts", so in the view of explicit is better than implicit, 
> I try to explicitly name contracts I really want to inherit and/or 
> otherwise intend to fulfill.

Well said.

Jim

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