[Zope3-dev] Second ZOPE 3 mini- NEWSLETTER (and kinda large
glossary)
Gary Poster
gary@zope.com
31 Oct 2002 11:44:40 -0500
Point taken: I lost accuracy in my pursuit of friendliness. Would you
buy "reside in the traversable Zope tree"?
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 11:28, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:15 AM 10/31/02 -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
> >
> > [NEW]
> > Placeful: An adjective describing an object that resides in the *ZODB*
> > (and so is persistent) and is potentially pertinent only to the ZODB
> > branch (or "folder" and all children) in which it resides. Similar
> > to standard programming "local" concept of variables. Opposite of
> > *Placeless*.
> >
> > [NEW]
> > Placeless: An adjective describing an object that resides outside
> > of the typically addressed Zope database, and is available to all
> > objects irresepective of their location in the ZODB (or what "folder"
> > they reside in). Usually not persistent, but instantiated in memory
> > on each program start. Somewhat similar to standard programming
> > "global" concept of variables. Opposite of *Placeful*.
>
> Hm. I don't think that these terms have anything to do with ZODB, since
> they can also be applied to non-Persistent objects. All that placefulness
> requires is that it be "local" rather than "global" in scope of the
> application.
>
> At least, if *I* understand it correctly, which isn't certain. ;) But I'd
> like it to be true, since I expect to have quite a lot of "placeful" things
> in Zope 3 that *aren't* persistent and won't be going anywhere near ZODB.
>