[Zope-dev] zope.component: calling an Interface and calling queryAdapter give differing results

[Chris Withers]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> I can't see any problems with this, can anyone else?
> 
> There's the backward-compatibility issue, which is a showstopper.
> There's plenty of code that does this:
> 
>     adapter = package.interfaces.IFoo(object, None)
> 
> Changing the signature as you describe would break all code that does this.

How about a new major revision of zope.interface then?

I thought the pointless yoke of backwards compatability was something 
only Microsoft yearned for? ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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