Scope of instantiated class

[Peter Hansen]

Aahz wrote:
> 
> In article <3D3B4F80.B0D6BE07 at engcorp.com>,
> Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> >I'm trying to follow Aahz' advice and avoid "reference" in favour of
> >"binding" etc, but I guess I carried it too far! :)
> 
> <grin>  Your problem wasn't in your use of "binding", but in your use of
> "name; I use "target" to refer to the general case of thingy that can
> contain a binding, of which names are a subset.  "Names" are words
> attached to a namespace (i.e. function local, module global, builtin, or
> object attribute).  Another target is an index/key for container
> objects.

Hmmm... "target" sounds like the wrong direction.  Shouldn't it
be a "source" for the binding?  Or maybe another term which doesn't
have what seems to me the potential for confusion would be better.

-Peter