From: Trans Date: 2005-07-30T20:26:02+09:00 Subject: Re: make local var visible An interesting corllary is the what-if question of class and modules (and all constants for that matter) being able to have non-case related names. foo = 1 class foo foo end foo That local var and class name then do indeed come into a clash. I wonder, matz, what would you have done is using case were not an option? T.