Am Samstag, 1. Januar 2005 01:05 schrieb Zachery Corbiere: > Having the request be part of the signature makes it easier to test > your code in isolation by passing in fake requests rather than faking > out get_request() and its friends. Also, it's been my experience that > magic global state, even hidden behind function calls, ends up causing > grief eventually. Hi, I like the request in the signature of a method, too. You see immediately if a method is called via web or if it is a internal method which can't be called from a webbrowser. Thomas