Tom Sawyer <transami / transami.net> wrote: > this is really just a question of taste i think, but i'm wondering if you > think super's position should be kept irrelevant? in the example below the > puts @avar will return nil. super has to be placed below @avar = 1 for it to > return 1. It's not a question of relevance - it's just that super returns a value, and if it's the last statement in your method, that value will be the method's return value. I don't see any real way around that. martin