[Zope] Recursive aquisition: good or bad?

[Tom Schwaller]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> >>> Michel Pelletier wrote
> > It's 'featurish'.  This kind of thing falls under the feature/bug
> > anti-duality law.  It's not a bug, because it's doing exactly the right
> > thing, it's not a feature, because it's generally not very useful.  I
> > can imagine a situation somewhere in which it is useful (don't call my
> > bluff) but I can also easily immagine situations in which it's not very
> > useful at all (below).
> 
> It's _incredibly_ useful. For my current toy, an SQL data mining tool,
> I have a folder with a bunch of filters, ('cons_date', 'group_by_refcode',
> 'add_revenue', &c.) I can then build SQL queries with a URL like
> datamine/cons_date/group_by_refcode/add_revenue/show and it walks back
> through the objects and builds the SQL. More on this when it's released
> (hopefully shortly, but I keep finding new stuff to add :)

wow, this sounds like a killer app for Zope (I hear ESR say "publish
early" ;-))
I think I changed my view on the topic by 180 degree now :-)
 
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Tom 
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