[Zope3-dev] what is ZCML?

[Jim Fulton]

Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>
>> Yup.
>>
>> BTW, a general thing to keep in mind:
>>
>> - Indirection and abstraction are inherently bad because they
>>   hide things. :)
>>   (This is a corolary of "explicit is better than implicit".)
>>
>> - But indirection and abstraction can provide benefits that outweight
>>   their inherent bad-ness.
>>
>> Whenever we consider ptoviding a high-level/automated facility, we have
>> to weigh the benefit against the inherient badness.
>> [...]
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> yes, except that ZCML adds strictly no abstraction compared to what 
> would have been written in python.  It only "paraphrases" python by
> hiding lines of code.

I was refering to high-level ZCML, such browser:page, browser:menu, etc
vs low-level directives like adapter.

Jim

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