Hi -- On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Hal Fulton wrote: > Semantics, James Thurber notwithstanding, is not a town in Ohio. > > I think when Rich says "semantics" he means something that can't > really be checked by a machine -- the "purpose or function," as it > were. Yeah, I think you're right. I'd been interpreting the term as a kind of collective reference to things like signature, return type, etc. (which is why I'd had trouble finding any of them in Ruby methods :-) David -- David A. Black dblack / wobblini.net