At 2:26 AM +0900 7/21/04, Pit Capitain wrote: >Adam Wildavsky schrieb: > >>I'd like to call a particular inherited method rather than the one >>in my immediate ancestor. ... > Object.instance_method( :to_s ).bind( self ).call That did the trick -- thanks! Thanks also to everyone else who replied. -- Adam Wildavsky Extreme Programmer Tameware, LLC adam / tameware.com http://www.tameware.com