From: Trans Date: 2005-07-30T19:51:03+09:00 Subject: Re: make local var visible Brian, Are you suggesting: class MFoo def initialize( foo ) @foo=foo end def mfoo foo.each do |f| p f end end end # go-go-go! mf = MFoo.new( ["a","b","c"] ) mf.mfoo I agree. Yes, I think part of what botp was getting at is that in converting something from perl --without making too much fuss about it, he was suprised that it 1) wasn't completely straight foward, or 2) still was, well, perlish. (i.e. @@) T.