"Paul Brannan" wrote: > How would println differ from puts? > > (Currently, puts appends a newline if there is not one already there; > would println always append a newline, even if there is one already > there?) "puts" prints each of its arguments as a separate line. My idea of println is (simply) println "Hello ", "there" <equivalent to> print "Hello ", "there", "\n" It's definitely not necessary, just nice (IMO). Bob