"Aaron Hinni" <aaron / hinnispace.com> writes: > > > Yes, but this does not help when you mispell the left hand word: > > > > > > fred = 1 > > > betr = fred + 1 > > > > Umm, it does next time you try to use it. And if you don't use it, > > then it doesn't matter :) > > Actually it would matter if you had already used bert... then mistyped it, > then used bert again... expecting its value to have been changed. Yes, that's true. Now, the bigger question. Is this a problem in practice, in real Ruby code? Dave