[Zope3-dev] Re: proposed changes to contained helper functions

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Shane Hathaway writes:
 > Giving a unique name to each child serves the purpose of making all 
 > children potentially addressable via URL.  That's one of the sweet spots 
 > of Zope; it makes the system discoverable and clear.  I think a decision 
 > to not use this pattern should be weighed carefully.  In particular, if 
 > an object is not addressable via URL, it is quite difficult to provide a 
 > Web user interface for it or any of its descendants.

He's right not to use names here; the DOM is well-defined.  Exposing
individual node of the DOM directly via Zope is questionable (IMHO),
but I don't know if that's what he's doing.

I think he just wants to use part of the published interfaces in his
internal structures.  I hope that's all this is about.  ;-)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
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