Re: the ZCA API decision
Christian Theune <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
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Hi, On 12/03/2009 06:41 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hi there, > > I think we've had enough discussion to make a decision. 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. > > A "utility()" method will be added to Interface. It takes optional but > explicit 'default' and 'name' arguments. > > 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). > > [steering group members, if you are really unhappy with this, please > speak up now. Silence is assent. :)] I'm assenting loudly as I'm happy to see progress on this issue. Christian -- Christian Theune · [email protected] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ 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 )