[Zope3-dev] simple adapting (was Re: Container interface issues)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:12 AM 9/17/03 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:

>Obviously it's not open for discussion in this context, but maybe in an 
>alternate universe you could spell it like this:
>
>container.IAddTarget::addObject(name, object)

or under PEP 246:

adapt(container,IAddTarget).addObject(name, object)

or, in a hypothetical future version of Python using Pyrex typecast syntax 
for adaptation:

<IAddTarget>container.addObject(name, object)


>The idea is that adapters are so common that they become a part of the 
>language.  Objects no longer have a finite namespace of methods and 
>attributes.  The language becomes more organic and polymorphic than ever 
>before.  (It could also develop whole new classes of bugs, so I'm not 
>entirely certain it would be a *good* idea. ;-) )

As long as adapters remain distinct objects from their adaptees, I don't 
see a problem.