<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:25 AM, <a href="mailto:exarkun@twistedmatrix.com">exarkun@twistedmatrix.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><blockquote type="cite">reactor = getUtility(IReactor)?<br></blockquote><br>That's not really a solution. It's the barest glimpse of a large system which might be applied as a solution. Do you want to expand it?<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I'd like to echo this request for exposition. My understanding is that 'getUtility' is just a baroque way to access a global variable, with most of the disadvantages of said globalness intact. What does it provide that our existing import strategy doesn't?</div></body></html>