Re: [Plone-developers] Deprecation process for globalize()

[Alec M. <ap...@co...>]

On 3/31/07, Florian Schulze <flo...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:48:15 +0200, Alec Mitchell
> <ap...@co...> wrote:
>
> > This is dumb for the reasons stated above, renaming shouldn't happen
> > for aesthetic reasons, and the plone view is never referred to except
> > by @@plone, so there should never e a problem.  If someone created a
> > skin script named plone, or expected to acquire a content object named
> > plone then some undesirable behavior might arise.  Frankly this is,
> > IMO, much less likely to happen with the name 'plone' than it is to
> > happen with other view names (which of course suffer the same
> > potential name conflict issues).
>
> I thought views were meant to not create conflicts. Why do we get
> conflicts again in acquisition etc? If we get conflicts again, then why
> was the @@ prefix introduced at all?

@@blah is used to disambiguate a view from an attribute (an attribute
always wins).  However, acquired attributes (like skins) will be
overridden by views.

Alec