Can someone offer some links explaining the concept of "Acquisition by context" (not "acquisition by containment".
I've already read Jon Udell's paper The deep magic of Zope acquisition.
I would like to get a copy of Jim Fulton's paper on Acquisition. I have only this link which is broken http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/Info/IPC8/AcquisitionAlgebra/index.html)
Following links are very useful on "acquisition by containment" but not really helpful on "acquisition by context":
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Chapter 3 of a manuscript of the Zope Book.
If it fails along this path, it will continue the search in an order that is not easy to describe
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The Chapter Acquisition from the Zope Book simply mentions:
Acquisition by context is terribly difficult to explain, and you should avoid it if at all possible.
I disagree with this utterance. In my opinion programming concepts must be explained.
PS: I understand the "it" in the second part of this quote as meaning to "avoid to explain acquisition by context" and not "avoid acquisition by context". Nonetheless I disagree with both meanings.