On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Lex Spoon wrote:

> Incidentally, a class variable and a pool variable (or whatever you call
> the things in pool dictionaries) are extremely similar.  Their only
> difference is with which methods can access them.  Likewise for global
> variables: it's the same thing, only visible everywhere.

Don't forget Metaclass instance variables too, which are shared... except
that they aren't.  ;)

Ian