Fair enough -- I forgot about 'self' being dynamically scoped, which is an interesting point. Perhaps it's no coincidence that I have a particular dislike for t

Fair enough -- I forgot about 'self' being dynamically scoped, which is an interesting point. Perhaps it's no coincidence that I have a particular dislike for the scoping rules around Javascript's "this" keyword, as they're perhaps even more dynamically scoped than in other OO languages. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3166 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3166 was my reference though, with at least some seeing the PL design debate as being settled in favour of lexical scope. Although some dissent in the comments there.