On Dec 27, 10:18 pm, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS... / gmail.com> wrote: > I started writing my last message > about twenty minutes ago, then my cat got into a bag of wrapping-paper > from Christmas and messed up the living room (that's a bad kitty!) so > I got side-tracked... I know what you mean. I have a puppy. :-) > but I basically tried to demonstrate this > difference with the last two calls to #help in my last message. See > also the source of optparse.rb to see what my examples refer to about > "class nested in a class" and so forth:http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8/lib/optparse.rb Will do. Thanks for your last post. That cleared up quite a few things about getting help at the irb prompt. Thanks again. Regards, Santanu