[Zope3-dev] Context and Component Lookup

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> This discussion has become pointless.

Agreed. :) Anyway, it's been pointful before, so that's good.

> You are repeating yourself, and
> I'm repeating myself and we're not going to agree.

Actually the end of your last post gave me some hope. 

> I think the reason
> is that we desire different policies for component lookup. That's OK.
> neither of us is necessarily right or wrong.

Agreed.

> I suspect that we may
> have to pick a model where the context for looking things up is always
> specified, so that there is no default lookup.

I agree that this would be a good direction.

> In discussing parentgeddon with some folks here, I realize that I
> need to do some thinking about some more generalized models of
> acquisition. (Component lookup, as we've been discussing it, is,
> of course, a form of acquisition.) Acquisition is a powerful idea,
> but people are applying it in a number of different ways that don't
> necessarily correspond to "containment" (whatever that is ;).

I'm curious to find out the results on this!

Regards,

Martijn