Hi, I was browsing the older messages from last year, and decided to request the features discussed in ruby-talk messages 2865, 2872, and 2887: Numeric#odd? Numeric#even? Numeric#negative? Numeric#positive? String#lstrip String#rstrip As one person said, it assists readability. I also like how it seems to transfer some scaffolding to the interpreter... and they seem common enough. Guy N. Hurst -- HurstLinks Web Development http://www.hurstlinks.com/ Norfolk, VA 23510 (757)623-9688 FAX 623-0433 PHP/MySQL - Ruby/Perl - HTML/Javascript