[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Using Basic Zope Objects

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A comment to the paragraph below was recently added via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/BasicObject.stx#2-63

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    Methods are objects in Zope that hold special executable content.
    The name "Method" is actually a bit of a misnomer, and its use in
    Zope is slowly being phased out for more common terms like
    *Script* and *Template*.

      % Anonymous User - Apr. 22, 2002 4:12 pm:
       If "Method" is a misnomer and is being phased out, why is used extensively here? Why not just call them
       scripts and templates, with a little note at the beginning indicating that we used to call these "Methods"
       but that the name is deprecated?

      % Anonymous User - Apr. 23, 2002 6:04 pm:
       Well, he did say "slowly".  :)

      % hansa - Sep. 20, 2002 5:17 pm:
       In OOP parlance, an object *has* methods (with 1st parameter "self").

       In Zope use here a ZODB object *is a* method object applicable to other objects if its content is executable,
       the latter usually called *Scripts* if derived from PythonScript.
       But there is also DTML Method (the executed language being DTML).
       Misnomers confuse.