[Zope-dev] singleton vs. utility (was Re: implementing zope.component 4.0)

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 01:16, Gary Poster <gary.poster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't love "singleton."  I think it is better than "utility."  I agree at least that it probably isn't better enough to introduce confusion.  I'd be more insistent on "singleton", or finding a better term than either of them, if this were a fresh API.

I wonder if the best isn't to make the documentation clearly say
"Utilties are singleton components that can be looked up per
interface".

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