[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] refactoring listFilteredActionsFor: a proposal

[Yuppie]

Regarding the proposed 'max' argument in listActionInfos() ...
I wrote:
>> The use case I had in mind for 'max' is returning only the first result. 
>> This is used in combination with 'action_chain'. It doesn't make much 
>> sense to evaluate the fallback actions if we found an action that passes 
>> the checks. Would a 'only_first' flag better than 'max'?

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Or make the argument a negative, such as 'include_all_candidates'.

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> We can look how Python handles this case: e.g. "string.split", "re.sub".
> 
>   Along these line, "max" would be unlimited by default and when
>   needed, a limited value can be specified.

I like Dieter's approach. I'll use max=-1 as default if there are no 
objections.


Cheers, Yuppie