It would be great if this array would be available from some predef global var or constant. Here's what I extracted from ruby-1.6.6/keywords: keywords = [ '__LINE__', '__FILE__', 'BEGIN', 'END', 'alias', 'and', 'begin', 'break', 'case', 'class', 'def', 'defined?', 'do', 'else', 'elsif', 'end', 'ensure', 'false', 'for', 'if', 'in', 'module', 'next', 'nil', 'not', 'or', 'redo', 'rescue', 'retry', 'return', 'self', 'super', 'then', 'true', 'undef', 'unless', 'until', 'when', 'while', 'yield' ] Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/