[Zope] Re: IMHO erroneous text passage

Jeffrey N. Shelton shelton@custommachine.com
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:04:54 -0500


Thanks for the correction. I've modified the article to reflect this.

Jeff

> I think that there's a misinterpretable paragraph in
> 
> http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/breadcrumbs/acquisition/Behavior
> 
> right under the 'Blizzard' image:
> 
> <quote>
> Zope evaluates it in the following fashion:
> ...
> Now that the warm_cabin object has been found, it asks "Do we know
> anything about an attribute named drink?" Since our first contextual 
> assumption was that a blizzard was occurring, we look first in the 
> blizzard object. Indeed, we find a drink method inside the blizzard 
> folder. If we had not found it inside the blizzard folder, we would
> have then looked for it inside the warm_cabin folder, since we were 
> looking for drink in the context of both blizzard and warm_cabin.
> 
> /quote>
> 
> That's wrong, methinks: Substitute the ubiquituous 'index_html' method
> for 'drink': this method (as I'm experiencing all of them) is looked
> up from innermost to outermost enclosing object; otherwise, a single
> instance of 'index_html' in the "root" folder would spoil all of Zope's
> niceties...
> 
> HTH & Keep On Zopeing!
> 
> -- 
> MfG: Tom Riedl