[Zope3-dev] Re: Mini proposal: simpify presentation-lookup api

[Jim Fulton]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>> In the docstrings, you talk about presentations, but the methods are 
>>> called {get|query}Presenter. I think they should be called 
>>> {get|query}Presentation. That's also inline with the service being 
>>> called Presentation Service, the service for Adapters being called 
>>> Adapter Service, etc. etc.
>>
>>
>> Presenter is shorter. I'm open to even shorter names. :)
> 
> 
> I distinctly remember you ruling explicitness in names (even if it means 
> long names) over short names. This is a case where I agree with this 
> policy of yours :)

Great, but we haven't proved that there aren't short names that are
meaningful.

>> We can rename the service.
> 
> 
> -1

You aren't -1 on renaming the service are you? You are -1 on
"presentor", right?

> A presentation is clear. A presentator is not. The endswith('or') 
> implies an actor, a (real) person doing something.

But a presentation component presents an object, just like
an adapter adapts an object.

Would you prefer "getAdaptation", and an "Adaptation Service"

Jim

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