-----Original Message----- From: Joachim Werner [mailto:joe@iuveno-net.de] Sent: Friday, 22 June 2001 11:01 AM To: Jay, Dylan; zope-dev@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] ZClass not in a Product

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Is there any good reason why a Product inside the ControlPanel is the only place a ZClass can exist? Why can't I have one in any folder?

I think it is perfectly logical that ZClasses are located in the Products area. A folder is for instances of classes, and a ZClass is a class, not an instance.

That doesn't answer my question. That answers the question of "Why are they kept in the control panel". Yet another question is "Why am I interested in putting ZClasses elsewhere?" which my help you if I answer. I would like to delegate responsibility for classes to different people. I would like to have class that only can be used in the certain subsection of a site I would like to be able to make a quick local specialization of a class. Similar to anonymous inner classes in Java I would like to be able to have my code in classes and my code in methods etc in the same place. I would like to be able to replace a folder with methods in that I was using as a pseudo class via aquisition into a full blown class with the absolute minumum of effort I would like to be able to create a quick class for use as a plugable brain and not have to create products for it or have it in a whole different part of my site. One part of OO says that things that are related should be close to each other. I could probably go on. Now is there a technical reason why I can't have a ZClass inside any folder?