On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:04:54 -0000, Steve Litt <slitt / earthlink.net> wrote: > Yeah, on a similar subject, under what circumstances would one want to > add a > method to an object if that method wasn't part of its class? > Check out the way open-uri returns an extended string: require 'open-uri' uri = URI.parse 'http://www.google.com' #<URI::HTTP:0xfdbf049a8 URL:http://www.google.com> s = uri.read #=> "<html> ...[snip]... </html>" s.class #=> String s.base_uri #=> <URI::HTTP:0xfdbf1e54c URL:http://www.google.co.uk/> for one example. It's actually several methods in this case, from a module. -- Ross Bamford - rosco / roscopeco.remove.co.uk