[Zope-dev] summary of discussion was: adapter vs factory Re: implementing zope.component 4.0

[Gary Poster]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> 

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> I am also in favor of unifying adapter and utility lookup.  Or at least 
> creating a more normalized API.

I guess it is no surprise that I am in favor of a normalized API but against the unification.

> On the syntax of the change:

[...]

I followed vaguely.  This was about unification, correct?

> On the semantics of the change:
> 
> Personally I think that it's a fantasy to believe that the difference between 
> an object created via a factory on-demand and an object simply returned should 
> *never* matter to a caller.  You may not want the caller to need to care, and 
> it may be inconvenient to take into account circumstances where the caller 
> needs to care.  But because this is Python, the caller still often does need to 
> care.

Again, no surprise that I agree with this and following.

Gary