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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:26:23 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
: At 12:12 AM -0600 4/8/03, Luke Palmer wrote:
: >In this case it would be great to have lexically and dynamically
: >scoped properties.  So:
: 
: Gah! No! Nononononononono! Have I mentioned I'd rather not?
: 
: Lexically and dynamically scoped *methods* I can manage, as that's 
: just a layered namespace issue, and that's no big deal. Lexically and 
: dynamically scoped *properties*, though... Yowtch.

But what if you just think of the property as a method on a singleton class?

Larry