April 5, 2002
11:40 p.m.
BUt does it really clarify anything to use binding to describe two different things? You bind a name. You set an attribute. Names are a static property of the program text (for the most part). Attributes are quite dynamic. The only place where these two meet is modules. I think that's exceptional rather than indicative of some deeper connection between the two concepts. Functions have names, but those names don't relate to its attributes. Jeremy