[Zope] aquisition and refining

[Tres Seaver]

Alex Burton <burton@w3cast.com> wrote:
> 
>   Me again (last one for tonight!)
> 
>   Aquisition is groovy, but is it possible to refine aquired
> properties instead of redefining them from scratch?
> 
>   (Creating a standard_html_header in s subfolder and using <dtml-var
> standard_html_header> does not produce expected result, that is
> grabbing the upper-level's definition of standard_html_header).
> 
>    Is there a DTML tag such as <dtml-refine> which, when stated at a
> given level, would indicate where to insert sublevel redefinition of
> the DTML method?
> 
>   Maybe i'm thinking too much of OO inheritance...


"Jonothan Farr" <jfarr@real.com> replied:
> 
> You know, I've never really gotten this either. Maybe Jim Fulton could explain
> for us one more time or else point us at a good explanation of -why-
> acquisition begins at the root and goes down the tree instead of starting at
> the current level and going up, which I believe is what pretty much everyone
> expects it to do when they first run across it.

The slides from Jim Fulton's "Acquisition Algebra" talk are online:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/Info/IPC8/AcquisitionAlgebra/index.html

I know the title is intimidating, but I think the talk was "satori-making".

Tres.
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