[Zope-dev] Python and Perl scripts

[jpenny@universal-fasteners.com]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:01:59PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> This one is probably the most useful of the lot ;-)
> 
> >From: Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>
> 
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Well, Jim, Evan, Brian and I pow-wowed yesterday and came up with an
> >interesting change.  The world 'Method' is too overlaoded, as it means
> >too much to too many people.  Also, Python Methods don't work like
> >methods in python, which was my argument, but they are very useful and
> >there are sound reasons for them working like they do (which J, E and B
> >convinced me of yesterdat).  We have decided to change the name of
> >Python Methods to something else, the current candidate being 'Python
> >Script'.
> >
> >'Script' objects make a lot of sense, they don't overload the concept of
> >methods, they describe an action that people commonly want to do (script
> >the web) and they clear up a lot of potential confusion for newbie and
> >old-hat alike.
> >

Oh, yuck!  Now we have to explain why PythonScript is safe, and JavaScript
sucks rocks (from a security standpoint).  And from common web convention,
it would appear that PythonScript would run on the client side, rather
than the server side.  Since the -let suffix appears to have taken on
a server side connotation, perhaps that can be used.

Python Function is not quite right, as it is fairly common (for me, at
least) to define some helper functions in a Python Method.  But it is
better than Python Script.

So, I guess my preferences would be:

PythonSafeScriptlet
PythonScriptlet
PythonSafeScript
PythonSafeFunction
PythonFunction
PythonBundle
PythonMethod
PythonScript

in descending order of preference.


> >
> >-Michel
> 
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