On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > For example, in the Hash class, has_key? = include? = key? = member? > When I see include? and member? it's not immediately obvious to me > whether they test whether a given object is present as a key or a > value. has_key? and key? are more clear and I don't see a benefit to > having both of them. That's interesting. I always use include?() so it doesn't matter if I'm dealing with a Hash or an Array. ;) I am sure glad we can both have it our way. James Edward Gray II