[Zope-dev] No events in zope.annotation

[Stephan Richter]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Stephan Richter
>
> <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
> > Thus I propose:
> >
> > - Add ObjectCreatedEvent event notification to zope.annotation factory
> > call.
>
> By this, I presume you mean the stuff in zope.annotation.factory; is that
> right?

Yes.

> In our group, we've decided to avoid that machinery.  It causes the
> separation between data and code to become excessively blurred.  I'd
> love to see that factory machinery become unused.  I definitely
> consider it unusable.

I use it all the time. I think it makes development a lot easier. In fact, 
this came out of the ST project, where we constantly repeated this sort of 
code.

BTW, I really do not understand how it blurs the separation of code and data.

Regards,
Stephan
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