[Zope] Adding Products through Products

[Martijn Pieters]

At 20:35 10/05/99 , Ty Sarna wrote:
>In article <000301be9b09$ac1ec060$4c25cacf@lycos>,
>Andy Smith <andy@ictibroker.com> wrote:
> > Next on my list is a 'Russian Doll product' which allows you to place 
> inside
> > it a 'Russian doll' product which in turn allows you to place inside it
> > another 'Russian Doll' product , which in turn  ....
>
>Playing with the ZClasses tutorial, I noticed that I was able to place
>and instance of CD inside the CD class. I removed it before shutting
>down since I wasn't sure Zope would be able to deal with the circular
>reference on startup.
>
>Reminds me of a bug in the old Amiga Workbench 1.3: create two folders,
>a and b. Open their windows. Now draw a's icon into b's open window, and
>vice versa. Close the windows and *poof*, they've disappeared into each
>other forever. I couldn't get Zope to do this one, though :-)

Sound like fine to me.. Zope can easily deal with an _instance_ of a ZClass 
within the _definition_ of that class. The fact that you can then make a 
recursive reference shouldn't worry Zope too much I think..

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