On 9/7/07, Paul Brannan <pbrannan / atdesk.com> wrote: > Consider: what would happen if I moved #close from the IO class to the > Array class? There are various reasonable ways to handle errors such as this. At first, I would expect the same behavior that would result from taking the ruby source code for the #close method and pasting it in to the Array class. If #close isn't written in ruby, then don't allow it to be moved. kr