From: Wayne Scott <wscott / ichips.intel.com> > I just realized that the '[]=' is not implimented for Fixnum and Bignum. > Add that to my feature request. :) I bet you can't impliment '[]=' for Fixnum because it is an immediate value right? Even Bignum would be a problem: a = 44 b = a a[4] = 1 # this changes 'b' as well as 'a' Assuming the above is correct, I need to rethink wanting to write BitFields. -Wayne