>> The way AmigaOS handled this stuff was to use tag lists.
> 
> A very un-OO way of doing it.

Um, yes... This was 1992?

> Better would be something like
> x = new Window();
> x.title = "Hello there";
> x.background_color = red;
> ....
> x.show();

Sure. Just as soon as you figure out how to encode that at the machine 
level in a language-independant way that's efficient to generate and 
parse...

> Nobody said win32 was a *good* way to do it. :-)

Um... actually I'm pretty sure that's *exactly* what Microsoft says 
every freakin' day. :-P

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