JXSternChangeX2R <JXSternChangeX2R at gte.net> writes: > late bulletin: saying "self.__gvar" inside fn1 and fn2 fixes, but I > thought the idea was to avoid saying "self." all the time. Nope, self.__gvar is entirely correct. You never get implicit access to class variables. It's the old "explicit is better than implicit" principle again. Paul