----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Bates" <tim / bates.id.au> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 7:08 PM Subject: Default value of property Well... one way would be class NilClass def method default_value end end But many will frown on this, and it only works for *one* case anyway... Hal