From: Joseph McDonald Date: 2001-06-30T05:17:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17085] alias question Hi, I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something about alias. For instance, I thought this would work: alias time Time.now.to_i but it's a parse error. I was thinking it would be a shortcut notation for Time.now.to_i, but it's not. can someone enlighten me? thanks, -joe