Hi! Can we please have the C# ?? operator in ruby? It's so handy. Instead of writing a || b one can write a ?? b For more information, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx nikolai P.S. Please note the sarcasm. Don't you just love that you're using Ruby instead of <any other language>? And yes, I realize that there's a point in having the ?? operator in a language such as C#, but seriously, it's things such as these that really makes me appreciate Ruby. D.S.