From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" Date: 2004-07-29T11:51:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Automatically setting attributes > Do those methods have any advantages over doing > @goo, @moo = 0, 0 You only write one zero... :-) The only real difference is in Joel's method of grepping for sym= type methods, where you don't have to specify the variables names.