On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:57 am, Florian Gro wrote: | Moin! | | Here are a few cases where I think different behavior would be more | appropriate: | | 1) alias :"foo" :"bar" | This doesn't work at all right now. I think changing the syntax rule for | this was forgotten when the :"" symbol syntax was introduced. Should it? alias_method :"foo", :"bar" I think alias is built-in --not a method. T.