[Grok-dev] Naming of grok.provides

[Sebastian Ware]

I find the difference between implements/provides confusing too. And  
it gets more complicated when trying to understand the difference  
between IMyInterface.providedBy(obj) and  
IMyInterface.implementedBy(obj).

Mvh Sebastian

13 okt 2008 kl. 08.19 skrev Thomas Lotze:

> We recently noticed that the grok.provides directive is not well- 
> named:
>
> The documentation states that "if the local utility implements
> more than one interface or if the implemented interface cannot be
> determined, grok.provides() is required to disambiguate for what
> interface the local utility will be registered."
>
> OTOH, in zope.interface terminology, the term "provides" has a clear
> meaning in contrast to "implements": if a class, for instance,
> implements a certain interface, its instances are said to provide it.
>
> We feel that something should be done about this contradiction of
> terminologies as it confuses not only newcomers to Grok. Beyond a
> documentation improvement, what would be an acceptable fix given that
> this directive is rather close to Grok's core?
>
> Thomas
>
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