Thanks for your recent help theuserbl. I haven't had chance to test out your Beads code yet but I'm looking forward to playing with it as soon as I can. And if it's not an imposition there's another, fairly small but crucial aspect to that library that I haven't worked out how to implement yet, so I might ask you about it in that thread.
I'm glad there's still a little community around this language. I hope to see it develop further in the new year.