This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --12976DB.F998FD82 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I have recently discovered that things that I thought > were "reserved words" can actually serve as method names and the like. > This shocked me. It doesn't really bother me, but it surprised me. > For example, I used a method named "class" and it worked fine. I actually did something like this - and seems to me it caused me grief. I know I've run into lots of problems when I define a method "print" and then use print "foo" WITHIN the new "print" method :-) Time for lots of "Kernel.print" statements.... --12976DB.F998FD82 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px; MARGIN-TOP: 2px"> <DIV><FONT size=1>> I have recently discovered that things that I thought</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>> were "reserved words" can actually serve as method names and the like.<BR><BR>> This shocked me. It doesn't really bother me, but it surprised me.<BR><BR>> For example, I used a method named "class" and it worked fine.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>I actually did something like this - and seems to me it caused me grief.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>I know I've run into lots of problems when I define a method "print" and then use</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1> print "foo"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>WITHIN the new "print" method :-) Time for lots of "Kernel.print" statements....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1><BR><BR> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --12976DB.F998FD82--