Hello Gergely, Friday, October 11, 2002, 7:41:09 PM, you wrote: >>parameters to methods and closures also passed as references to actual >>objects. in order to get new, unbounded copy of variable value, you >>can use "dup" method: >> >>a='x' >>b=a.dup KG> But this is for one deep. sorry, i misread documentation. you are right -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz / integ.ru