In Japan,the shibori method involves tieing cloth in different ways so that some areas of it receive the dye.

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I'd really like to have that modularity that says, I'm only going to get access to the values, not by calling their names, but by calling some specific method to get access to their names.

这样我们就丢掉了代码的模块化,我很希望代码有这样的模块化：,我访问变量的值，不是通过直接调用它们的名字，而是通过调用某个可以,访问这些变量名的方法来访问。

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You could argue, well, x is in some sense inherently a method, but it's not nearly as clean as what I would like.

你可以争论这一点，好，x在某种意义上，页是一个方法,但是它可能并没有。

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