[Zope-dev] Unique and Contant object IDs

[Ty Sarna]

In article <04bbvs4ud41is1k7j6f33t67caclscl1jl@4ax.com>,
Toby Dickenson  <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> wrote:
> >Unfortunately there are a lot of things that Zope just can't do because
> >there is no way to get a persistent "ticket" for an object that can be
> >handed out to some external system, and then later redeemed for the
> >(properly wrapped) object. Pathnames are not useful, because they don't
> >last for the object's lifetime.
> 
> How come? because you want the identity to remain unchanged even after
> the object is moved? or duplicated?

If the object is duplicated, obviosuly the duplicate is a new one. But a
renamed object is the same object, and I want to be able to get back to
it, whatever it's called.