------ art_18305_4592450.1160509482342 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/10/06, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote: > > > Robert Dober wrote: > > ... > >> This discussion almost reminds me of Single vs. Multiple Inheritance. > >> I feel making all variables scope local and having to revert to > instance > >> variables > >> for global scope might be a good compromise, for me at least ;) > > > > Instance vars complicate threaded code. > > so do threads! ;-) I could not have put it better, well if instance variables complicate threaded code, I hope to know why, but I am an eager learner than any global scope rule of block variables might too, as a matter of fact maybe some fancy scoping rules might be helpful, honestly I do not know. I feel strongly though that this should not be a criterium for the design. -a > -- > my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama > > Robert -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernhard Shaw ------ art_18305_4592450.1160509482342--