On 11/22/06, Andrew Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll try to make an argument for "Interface" over "Ability" using > > examples from Zope. > > > It seems to me that not all interfaces coincide with something the > > object can _do_. Some speak to what can be done _to_ an object: > > When I see the word "interface", I think of the collection of method calls > that a type supports, because the word is used that way in other well-known > programming languages. I am suggesting the word "ability" because it covers > more than just method calls.
Hm, I would think it extends very naturally to instance variables, and I see no reason why it's a particularly bad idea to also extend it (mostly in our minds anyway, I expect) to describe certain behaviors that cannot be expressed (easily) in code. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
