[Zope3-Users] Re: What's the rationale of @@ ? Was: index.html

[Andreas Elvers]

Hi,

This @@ thing was nagging me all the time, because I could not explain 
it to my co-worker. We both seem to get the idea now :-)

Thanks
- Andreas

Benji York wrote:
 > Andreas Elvers wrote:
 >
 >> what the rationale of @@ anyway ?
 >
 >
 > One of the reasons is that it creates a name space.  If you have a view
 >  of a container named "foo" what happens if you create an object in the
 > container also named "foo"?  Does the object hide the view, or does the
 > view hide the object?  With the @@ prefix you can disambiguate.