From: Brian Buckley Date: 2005-12-02T00:52:00+09:00 Subject: Re: require! > More to the point: what version of Ruby are you using? Here's the > output with 1.8.3: I am an older version (1.8.2) but I am getting the same result as you. I didn't realize you'd intentionally omitted to noop to_a. That and with Ross's explanation, now I get it.