From: Devin Mullins Date: 2006-09-20T12:18:51+09:00 Subject: Re: => A newb question Dominic Son wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. I feel like an enlightened newbie right > now. Keep in mind that you *can* use the = sign inside a Hash literal, which is why it's not available for use by the Hash syntax: hash = { :key => :value, :blah => foo = 5 } p hash, foo Not that that's not a really screwy thing to do... Devin