David Pollak wrote:
> It stands for State.
>
> When I first started coding Lift, I was using emacs and wanted to have
> short names for everything... especially the commonly used stuff.
>
> I wanted to isolate state into a single place so every time you dealt
> with S, you know you were doing something stateful (rather than purely
> functional with no side effects... with the exception of RDBMS related
> stuff which is stateful on its face.)
>
> S has morphed into S, SHtml, RequestVars and SessionVars... but all
> the explicit state is still kept in S.
>
> Does that help?
>

Yeah, muchly, thanks.  That might be a nice thing to put in a comment in
S.scala...

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