Re: the ZCA API decision
Martin Aspeli <[email protected]>
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Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hi there, > > I think we've had enough discussion to make a decision. I'm a little worried that neither Stephan Richter, nor Jim Fulton have had much weight in on this. They seem like important stakeholders. :) > Hopefully > everybody is at least reasonably happy with this: > > An "adapt()" method will be added to Interface. It takes the objects to > adapt as *args, and optional but explicit 'default' and 'name' aguments. +1 > A "utility()" method will be added to Interface. It takes optional but > explicit 'default' and 'name' arguments. +1 > On the adapter hook (__call__) we will deprecate the implicit second > argument for defaults, with a deprecation warning. Instead, we will > require people to write out 'default=' explicitly. Otherwise its > behavior remains unchanged. I think we can motivate this change purely > because IFoo(bar, baz) really is quite surprising compared to IFoo(bar, > default=baz). +1 > [steering group members, if you are really unhappy with this, please > speak up now. Silence is assent. :)] I'd give them a week or so at least... this is deep stuff. ;) > Hopefully we can move forward towards implementation. > > Thomas Lotze, are you happy enough with this to still help with the > implementation? > > Thanks everybody for your participation in the discussion! Can we all get back to our lives now? :-) Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )