[Zope-dev] Re: No events in zope.annotation

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> 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.

I agree.

> In fact, 
> this came out of the ST project, where we constantly repeated this sort of 
> code.

Not that it matters much, but I think it was Martijn Faassen who wrote it.

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

Me neither.