Jeff
I think the assign and attrib methods are quite useful.
Example: say you have a client object
You can use "access" methods of various properties to only pull data if it is needed
Eg: the client's "90 day overdue" property can have an access method so it only calculates that if you read the value, and then only the first time for that client
I suppose there are other ways to do it, but being able to just read a property as and when needed is pretty cool...
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
