From: "Kurt M. Dresner" Date: 2003-08-22T02:55:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Class variables - a surprising result > I have run into this because I'm working on a loans > system, and each item needs a unique id, which I've allocated as an > error correcting code. This gives me 46000 items. But if I have to > use the same class variable to number my users uniquely as well as > the items they borrow, that uses up space in my limited range. Um, this screams "instance variables" to me... What does your class represent, a user or a loan? -Kurt