>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned / bike-nomad.com> writes: N> I think that's what I meant but didn't say. The new class has the original N> class as a superclass, right? Yes, but you can't compare singleton classes with perl bless. The equivalent of bless, in ruby, is just to change RBASIC(obj)->klass and perl don't have (natively) the equivalent of singleton classes. Guy Decoux