On 24 January 2002, David Ascher said:
> Here's a slightly different version of Neil's code which makes a bit
> more sense to me:

[...code and output omitted...]

> Now, the only difference with Neil's code is that I'm not using
> _q_getname to return "self", and instead use _q_getname to return a
> child folder.  This seems more 'right' to me.  Am I missing a greater
> truth about web object modeling?

No, your code looks pretty sensible to me.  I haven't done this sort of
"recursive getname" business myself, but it seems like the Right Thing
to model a tree structure like a filesystem.

Hmmm: we have a similar thing on our web site (the process catalog,
http://www.mems-exchange.org/catalog/) to explore a hierarchy.  Yes, it
works the same way: CatalogUI._q_getname() returns a new CatalogUI
instance representing a deeper level of the hierarchy.  Looks pretty
sound to me.

        Greg
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