Hello all, There's a nice article at http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/31/java3.html that discusses improvements for Java. Here's a two things that also apply to Ruby: 10 and 9: are methods and such going to be deprecated in Ruby? I think there are some good candidates, like every method that ends with a "2" or "3"... 7: According to this point, Unicode has -much- more characters than 65536, so it needs more than two bytes. I haven't seen that mentioned here before. Danny