[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-PTK] PROPOSAL: Splitting ZPatternsinto two products

[Steve Alexander]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> "Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> > DataSkins themselves,
> 
> Okay, I'm being dumb again, but could someone explain to me how the name
> DataSkin came about

Suggestion on zope-dev from Jason Spisak Fri, 19 May 2000 17:28:19 GMT,
in response to Phillip looking for a better name than "Dynamic Data
Object".

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Phillip:
> > I'm not actually real fond of the DDO term, because "Dynamic Data Object"
> > doesn't quite do justice to what these things actually are.  I am
> > definitely open to suggestions for a better name.  (Facade?  PlaceHolder?
> > InsideOutObject?  ExternalDataObject?  BrainInjectedObject?)

Jason:
> ZopeTupperware, AloofAttributeObjects, DataSkins :)  
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> and how it relates to what these objects do?

Well, you can look at a normal object as having a interface "skin"
through which you interact with the "flesh and bone" of its data.

A Data Skin object is a bit like a clever virtual-reality glove, where
its "flesh and bone" is actually somewhere else -- or perhaps nowhere at
all, and is just generated from some algorithms.

However, in both cases, the "skin" looks and feels exactly the same.

Keywords: Encapsulation Delegation Transparency

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
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