Anthony Baxter wrote:
Michel Pelletier wrote It's 'featurish'. This kind of thing falls under the feature/bug anti-duality law. It's not a bug, because it's doing exactly the right thing, it's not a feature, because it's generally not very useful. I can imagine a situation somewhere in which it is useful (don't call my bluff) but I can also easily immagine situations in which it's not very useful at all (below).
It's _incredibly_ useful. For my current toy, an SQL data mining tool, I have a folder with a bunch of filters, ('cons_date', 'group_by_refcode', 'add_revenue', &c.) I can then build SQL queries with a URL like datamine/cons_date/group_by_refcode/add_revenue/show and it walks back through the objects and builds the SQL. More on this when it's released (hopefully shortly, but I keep finding new stuff to add :)
wow, this sounds like a killer app for Zope (I hear ESR say "publish early" ;-)) I think I changed my view on the topic by 180 degree now :-) -- Tom http://www.linux-magazin.de/