[Twisted-Python] IFoo(x, persist=1)

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 19:39, James Y Knight wrote:

> I'm not sure about 'used a lot', looks more like "used a bit".

OK. Can anyone describe or point at some of these use cases? 

> That of course doesn't act exactly the same as it doesn't have the 
> weirdo persist=None vs persist=False behavior. Does anyone actually 
> depend on that? The current persist argument API is completely bogus so 
> I don't think it's a good idea to hack up Zope3's code just for 
> backwards compatibility with our broken API.

Oh, I wouldn't do *that*. But weakref persistence of adapters is a
useful idea, and I'm going to have to have a backwards compat layer
anyway. Question is what parts of it *are* useful and if so what API
they should have.

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