[Zope3-dev] Re: revisiting IResult (for in-Zope pipelining)

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 16 Apr 2007, at 19:09 , Gary Poster wrote:
> I suppose there are four choices: (a) special case strings to make  
> sure they are chunked the right way; (b) expect that the adapter  
> result will be chunked the right way, so that someone returning a  
> string will get bad performance and no error message; (c) puke if  
> someone returns a string; or (d) log it to a file, but then do (a).
>
> I really don't like (b).  A string is in fact iterable, so puking,  
> as with (c), seems unpleasant.  I'm ok with (d) but it seems  
> excessively "naggy".  Strings are *the* common case, so I prefer (a).
>
> I'm more concretely +1 on (a) now that I've spelled out these  
> options.  Since no one has given a true -1 on it, I will proceed  
> with that, unless we get further discussion.

Ok, as long as the WSGI-ish behaviour also works (that way it's easy  
to explain Nonzopistas).