Strange call of policy.validate in Traversable

[gotcha]

While debugging, I came to the following line:

Zope/src/OFS/Traversable.py

Line 315 in b507c39

obj, obj, None, next):

Which passes None to validate instead of the name variable that is used at line 301.

@dataflake @icemac Do you see a reason for not passing the actual nameto that validate call ?

All other calls in restrictedTraverse (except 1) do pass the available namevariable.

[dataflake]

If you look at the git blame you will notice that none of us ever touched this code and it's been that way forever. So no, I do not know.

If there is an actual problem it would be helpful if you described it.

[gotcha]

I actually went through git blame until first commit by hannosch which sounds like moving from elsewhere.
I know none of you did touch it.

I think it is spurious that the name is not used in this particular case. And I am asking advice of people I consider wise.
Think of this as code review while trying to make sense of code when debugging.

And sorry for the noise if you think this makes no sense.

[icemac]

I think this code was added in e10b7d6 (_none has the value of None and was changed in a later commit to None.) – Looks like it was introduced in Zope 2.9.

I must admit that I do not understand what was the goal of that change.