[Zope-dev] Acquisition wishlist :-)

[Martijn Pieters]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:38:22PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Martijn Pieters writes:
>  > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:10:34AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>  > > You wouldn't need to have index_html = None if it is inherited, since
>  > > the inherited idnex_html would be used before one is acquired, surely?
>  > 
>  > Yup. If you don't want to have any index_html *at all*, just declare it
>  > index_html = None. DTML Methods and HiperDom templates do this as well,
>  > for example.
> You have an "index_html" and its value is "None".
> 
> If you use this class with another class that has a useful
> "index_html", you must care for the inheritance order
> to get the right on.

Of course, but you always have to. index_html in any class could be
anything. You could even override the inherited 'index_html = None' with
'index_html = Acquisition.Acquire'.

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