Hi -- On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Lyle Johnson wrote: > Hmmm... I see the same changed in behavior here when going from Ruby > 1.6.7 to Ruby 1.7.2. And I don't see it mentioned in the doc/NEWS so I > wonder if this was an intentional change? Yes -- from ChangeLog: Tue Dec 4 17:43:10 2001 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> * string.c (rb_str_dup): uses DUPSETUP. now properly copies instance variables too. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack / candle.superlink.net work: blackdav / shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav