On 4/20/02 3:02 PM, "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed:

>   banana now red;
>   "foo" now false;
>   banana now foo;
>   banana now tainted;
> 
> I read 'now' as somewhat suggestive of changing something.

I actually rather like this keyword. It not only suggests that something has
changed, but that it has changed at a particular time -- runtime. Compile
time properties just *are* (is), no matter what, unless and until you say,
at runtime, that it is *now* something else.

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