Stephan Richter wrote: > On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Chris McDonough wrote: >>> Off the top of my head, another way to think of this might be to say >>> that the 'dict access' is basically looking up a named utility >>> providing a very generic marker interface, e.g. >>> zope.component.interfaces.IUtility or even just >>> zope.interface.Interface. That way reg['foo'] == getUtility(IUtility, >>> name='foo'). Obviously, assignment would register in the same way. >>> >>> I'm not sure it's "better", though. :) >> That would also be fine, and it would normalize things a bit, although the >> implementation would be harder and it would result in slower lookups. But >> if it made folks feel better than inheriting from dict, I'd be +1 on it. > > I have not read the entire thread, but Martin's suggestion using > zope.interface.Interface makes a lot to sense to me as the dict syntax > becomes > syntactic sugar and a simplification when desired.
I think it makes sense. If we can relax the "utility name must be a string" restriction it would be the best solution I think. I'll see what I can do. - C _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )
