[Zope-dev] Re: Future of ZClasses

[Andreas Jung]

--On 9. Oktober 2006 19:11:55 +0200 Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> 
wrote:
>
>> I would not recommend anyone to over-use multiple inheritance as it's
>> been done in Zope 2.
>
> I am a strong favorite of (multiple) inheritance and use it excessively.
> I have the feeling that it makes me very productive.

We have some code where some classes have up to 15(!) base classes (usually 
mixin classes), not counting classes inherited from the mix-in classes. I 
would call that unmanageable. Personal productivity is one side of the 
medal, readability and understandability of code for other team member is 
the other side of the medal. Although I am not the biggest fan of the 
component architecture I have to admit that it makes a lot of things 
clearer and cleaner.

-aj  
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/attachments/20061009/1cbed086/attachment.bin