[Zope] Acquisition Problem ?

[Dieter Maurer]

Richard Moon writes:
 > But what we have here is an object, a dtml method, which behaves completely 
 > differently depending on how it is referenced.
 > 
 > Can anyone tell me why that is a good thing ? To me it seems a very bad thing.
I like it very much!

It allows to use a single object in different contexts
and to have its behaviour adapted to these contexts.

In fact, the behaviour is not completely different:
it is still controlled by the same code/algorithm.
But the different contexts lead to slightly different
behaviour, influenced by the context.

You have similar effects in object orientend languages
with dynamic method resolution.


Dieter