[Cuis] [Philosophy] Do we need pool dictionaries?

[Sean P. DeNigris]

Nicolas Cellier wrote
> But then, what difference with class variables?

It's just like class variables but more flexible because:
- you import a specific group or groups instead of individual names
- you don't "waste" committing to a superclass. Without multiple
inheritance, this is important. For example, in NativeBoost, there are
objects representing external entities, which will use C constant names, and
must inherit from a particular NativeBoost class. Then, if you make a facade
for the library functions themselves, which also need the constants defined,
but will not be subclassed from the same object.



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Cheers,
Sean
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