From: Lyle Johnson Date: 2001-03-24T03:40:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13151] Re: How would Ruby say this? Thanks to all who responded. Because it's more consistent with the way Ruby does things in other similar situations, I think I'll go with Dave's suggestions of having the getXXX() functions return "nil" to indicate that the user cancelled the operation, or return the new value otherwise.