Hi, nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote: >>3. The pipes on a parameter list for a do block ought to be optional. >> I'm not sure about this one. > > > By "pipes", do you mean this? > > foo do |this| end > > Then, it's optional, you can omit it if you don't use it. I understood that he liked the pipe characters to be optional, but not neccessarily the parameter list, so as to be allowed to wrint something like this: some_method do a_param, one_more, and_another # use them here end "which is, of course impossible" (Douglas Adams)... Happy rubying Stephan