On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Simon Blanco <cowkiller123 / gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > You mean creating a global variable at the beginning of the program, or > am I missing something? No as STDOUT exists as built in, so das $stdout, same for STDERR, STDIN, $stderr and $stdin. The advantage of using $stdout is that you can change it at the beginning of your program which might e.g. maeking some testing easier. But it is perfectly alright to use STDOUT :) Cheers Robert > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- As simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein