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[Ian Booth <ian.booth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri 13 Apr 2012 00:32:34 EST, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> On 12-04-11 09:17 PM, Ian Booth wrote:
>> Plus, it is possible to iterate over the named services and see 
>> what's there, what service interfaces are implemented, what methods
>> are available etc. ie a classic discoverability pattern.
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> But this is also true of the lp.servicefoo approach.  dir(lp) will
> list them, getattr can retrieve them.  So I don't think the
> discoverability/iteration argument is a strong one.
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dir(lp) will list the services for sure, but also everything else as
well. Having the top level collection 'services' provides a namespace of
sorts which I think is necessary.