[Zope-dev] improving the utility and adapter lookup APIs

[Gary Poster]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Thomas Lotze wrote:

> Gary Poster wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Lotze wrote:
>> 
>>> What about a simple and consistent API for all components including
>>> utilities, adapters and multiadapters:
>>> 
>>> IFoo()
>>> IFoo(x)
>>> IFoo(x, y)
>>> 
>>> I seem to remember there had been some discussion at some point about
>>> dropping or at least loosening the distinction between utilities and
>>> adapters anyway, so this would be the opportunity to do so at the API
>>> level.
>> 
>> That was discussed and rejected near the very beginning of the Z3
>> effort, in my memory.
> 
> OK. If that was a hard and fast decision, I'll not argue further.

FWIW, I'm saying that utilities and adapters are different.  I share your/Martijn's/other people's general thoughts about merging adapters and multiadapters in the interface __call__ syntax.

Gary