Hiya Nancy ---

>I've following this thread all day, and I appreciate the lucid, substantive discussion.
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>A couple of thoughts:
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>"Coupling" one class to another by letting it refer by name to another class's property makes sense (I've found) in tightly related classes. So, it's a matter of degree and surely the literature should (if it doesn't) deal with degree of relationship. (I don't know the *right* words here.)
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Ummm...I think static coupling and dynamic coupling.