On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:57:00PM -0800, Dave Storrs wrote: > *shrug* You may not like the aesthetics, but my point still > stands: "is rw" is too long for something we're going to do fairly often.
I am not so sure. If I look back through a lot of my code, there are more cases where I use the variable in a read-only fashion than I do for modifying the value. Graham.