On 2/28/06, Ross Bamford <rossrt / roscopeco.co.uk> wrote: > This isn't necessarily based in fact (i.e. I've not surfed the source > just now) but I imagine it would be: > > * Harder to parse, with more ambiguous cases. > * Generally slower, since local lookup would be 'the long way' > more often. > * More difficult to follow the code six months down the line > (or on the next guy's screen). I would disagree on the third point. However, I guess that doing allowing 'selfless' attributes would cause some worst inconsistency somewhere else. i just wonder what it could be. -- -- Chiaroscuro -- Liquid Development Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/liquiddevelopment