From: Jim Date: 2007-02-17T00:15:37+09:00 Subject: how to fail initialize I would like to know the correct way to fail the creating of an object. I would return a NULL in c/c++ but returning a nil does not to seem to work correctly i.e. if(obj) then do stuff OR if(obj != nil) then do stuff New to Ruby if you couldn't guess. Jim. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.