>>>_Tally is a read-only property of the global system object, where the object is implied.
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>>It sounds like lawyer-speak :)
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>I've never been more insulted in all my life. You...you...you civil servant, you! :)
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>>What's an 'implied object'?
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>I just meant that you don't have to supply the object for which _Tally is a member: System._Tally.

But is it really a property? Since it's been around so long, I might assume it to be an ordinary global variable...