you're talking over my head francis, i am a beginner. I have no idea what strongly typed even means to be honest. Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > A lot of people have the mistaken notion that Ruby is not "strongly > typed" > (perhaps because they confuse dynamic type-resolution with weak typing), > and > this is a good counterexample. You might suppose that Ruby could infer > from > the syntax info[]= that it should create an object of type Array, but in > fact the method named []= is defined on other classes (such as Hash), > and > could of course be defined or meta-defined in your own classes. So Ruby > doesn't try to guess what class you meant. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.