"this me"?

[Richard Gaskin]

Geoff Canyon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote:
>
>> So, to the extent that it might effect preferences for the syntax, what
>> are some examples of how this would be used?
>
> This seems similar to the distinction between class and instance methods.
>
> Class methods are often used to store values that all the instances share
> in common. In LC, a local variable in the behavior seems like the
> reasonable way to handle this. For example, if you are writing Space
> Invaders and need to keep track of how many invaders are left, a local in
> the behavior script for the invaders would work.
>
> Having the scriptObject would let you store properties on the behavior
> object, which might come in handy if you want to save the stack? Not sure.

This raises an interesting question:  What if you don't want to save 
those values?  Or what if the value you want to use is a nested array, 
which is much slower to get in and out of a property than it is from a 
variable?

Once we start down this road, we should consider a directive for 
variable declarations to be used by the class rather than the instance, 
perhaps something like:

scriptObject local MyVar

..or:

local to scriptObject myVar

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