"zuzu" <sean.zuzu / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:a988e9f604071816245a8892af / mail.gmail.com... > 2.) i would like to clarify, that this is not necessarily for reading > ruby, the interpreter, or chmod +x .rb files, shell command lines. > this should apply to any function/method's arguments; as in > object.method(arg1, arg2, arg3). What exactly do you want to do? I mean, you don't have to parse method arguments since that is taken care of by Ruby. Btw: see also "Duck Typing". Regards robert