From: Devin Mullins Date: 2006-09-20T21:40:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Something strange in ruby or I'm a newbie? > super +" ,I found you !" #Notice here > "undefined method `+@' for " ,I found you !":String (NoMethodError) Congratulations! You stumped the parser! (Actually, it's really easy.) Your code is attempting to call super, passing one argument: +" ,I found you !" That + is the unary + operator, which exists for Integers (and does nothing), but doesn't have a definition for strings -- hence the error. In fact, I'm not really sure why it exists. Might make for some interesting DSLage: ThingPrinter.run do +verbose -coloring ... end Devin